Should minorities carry their passports/identification?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone leave home without identification?

I always take ID.

If you routinely leave home without ID, why?

If you get in an accident, have a medical emergency, or are a victim of a crime, why do you not want to have your ID with you?

If you don’t, why not? You want to be unable to be identified and unable to have authorities contact your loved ones?

Because I go for walks and runs, I bike places. I don't need ID unless I am driving or getting on an airplane. This is the effing USA, not soviet Russia.

So if you get hit by a car, or have a heart attack, while walking or running or biking, how do you expect the hospital to contact your loved ones?

They won’t know who you are and you could be unconscious, in a coma, etc.

It will get sorted out when the missing persons report if filed or witness report it to the police.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone leave home without identification?

I always take ID.

If you routinely leave home without ID, why?

If you get in an accident, have a medical emergency, or are a victim of a crime, why do you not want to have your ID with you?

If you don’t, why not? You want to be unable to be identified and unable to have authorities contact your loved ones?

An id is not your passport. Stop bring fake naive

That should be in a safe deposit box somewhere. Not going to Busch Gardens

Green Card holders must legally carry their documentation.


U.S. law requires green card holders to carry their Green Card (Form I-551) with them at all times. Specifically, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Section 264(e) states that every alien aged 18 and over must carry this card or alien registration receipt card "at all times". Failure to do so can result in fines or even imprisonment.

Hmmmm.

Historically UNENFORCED if you aren't near a border


Unless you live in a police state...

Hmmm....

No, required by law, a law democrats were the architects of.

Democrats in 1952 are today's GOP, you know, after the parties re-sorted post Civil Rights Act.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, resist! That's not the law. The government has the burden of proof.

You’re not a POC, are you?

NP. I am a “POC” (I hate this term) lawyer and I agree with this in principle. But I’m not scared of being “disappeared” or walking around in general. I live in NYC and walk around all the time without a wallet (including ID), and have no plans of changing this.

People are being hysterical. Many years ago I studied abroad in Russia, which is actually a country where authorities can and will stop foreign-looking people (or anyone) and ask for your papers. This is not anything even remotely close to that.

Not yet, anyhow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always carry ID. Female WASP. Exception would be walking in the neighborhood.

And, when I lived and worked overseas, I always carried my passport.

+1

They run your ID and if it’s up to date, accurate and matches your face and other IDs, yours all set.

If they run it and it’s fake that’s illegal and you can get fined, confiscated, jailed and more.

As an American, or someone visiting, there should never be a situation where I am stopped without cause to have an ID run. Do you see how absurd this is?

[Anonymous]

Does it make a difference?
They can just say your ID is fake or they don’t believe you. If the press finds out a fuss might be made but then you will just be fodder for maga to pick over and decide why you actually deserved to be detained, how it wasn’t that big of a deal, how it would never happen to them, and on and on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. A passport card and drivers license, at all times. If detained you can prove citizenship much faster if it’s on your person.

So many US citizens don't have passports. They are, by and large, the poorer citizens. They should not be punished for not having papers

I let my passport lapse because I no longer need to travel outside the country. My DL is Real ID Compliant.

[Anonymous]

The police. ICE. FBI, Homeland security and TSA are beyond corrupt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm taking my son and his friend to Busch Gardens this weekend and the friend's mom let me know that he'll have his passport with him in a waterproof lanyard. Like the kind people buy for their cellphones. She said she's had both of her kids carry theirs daily in lanyards.

She asked if I was having my son carry his...and I haven't been, but maybe I should. We are of Italian heritage, so he's got the olive complexion and dark hair.

So sad that this is now America. The kids were born here! Their parents were born here!

No, this is not “who we are”, this is who hysterical-main-character liberals on DCUM are.

You people are too much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, resist! That's not the law. The government has the burden of proof.

You’re not a POC, are you?

NP. I am a “POC” (I hate this term) lawyer and I agree with this in principle. But I’m not scared of being “disappeared” or walking around in general. I live in NYC and walk around all the time without a wallet (including ID), and have no plans of changing this.

People are being hysterical. Many years ago I studied abroad in Russia, which is actually a country where authorities can and will stop foreign-looking people (or anyone) and ask for your papers. This is not anything even remotely close to that.

lol better start carrying your papers on you. Can’t wait to see you try to lawyer your way out of being arrested by a private in the 82nd or mask ICE agents.

The Trump administration is planning to conduct major immigration raids in three U.S. cities per week, according to three sources familiar with the planning. One of the sources described the operations as “all hands on deck.”

Operations began Sunday in Chicago, New York City began Tuesday, and three officials said they were planning for the next operation to take place in Aurora, Colorado, on Thursday. However, two sources familiar with the planning said Wednesday the Aurora operation was called off temporarily due to media leaks. One source said the leaks posed an operational security risk for officers involved.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/are-cities-ice-raids-are-taking-place-rcna189390

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always carry ID. Female WASP. Exception would be walking in the neighborhood.

And, when I lived and worked overseas, I always carried my passport.

That's you. We're not required to carry ID while walking in this country.

I grew up overseas (foreign service family) and none of us carried our passports at all times.

FYI law enforcement always has the right to detain you in order to ascertain your identity, if they have reasonable suspicion of anything.

They can't randomly stop you and demand ID, but they if they can articulate any reason that you might be someone they are looking to bring in, they can hold you until you prove you are not who they suspect you are.

They can and do stop people to show their ID. They do not need a reason to do this. So yes they can stop you randomly or profile you and demand ID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, resist! That's not the law. The government has the burden of proof.

You’re not a POC, are you?

NP. I am a “POC” (I hate this term) lawyer and I agree with this in principle. But I’m not scared of being “disappeared” or walking around in general. I live in NYC and walk around all the time without a wallet (including ID), and have no plans of changing this.

People are being hysterical. Many years ago I studied abroad in Russia, which is actually a country where authorities can and will stop foreign-looking people (or anyone) and ask for your papers. This is not anything even remotely close to that.

lol better start carrying your papers on you. Can’t wait to see you try to lawyer your way out of being arrested by a private in the 82nd or mask ICE agents.

The Trump administration is planning to conduct major immigration raids in three U.S. cities per week, according to three sources familiar with the planning. One of the sources described the operations as “all hands on deck.”

Operations began Sunday in Chicago, New York City began Tuesday, and three officials said they were planning for the next operation to take place in Aurora, Colorado, on Thursday. However, two sources familiar with the planning said Wednesday the Aurora operation was called off temporarily due to media leaks. One source said the leaks posed an operational security risk for officers involved.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/are-cities-ice-raids-are-taking-place-rcna189390

PP here. Yeah, I see absolutely no need to do that. My point is that the immigration raids - and I am not addressing the merits of those and due process issues they might raise - are exactly that, raids, where ICE thinks it can pick up people without papers. Like immigration court. There aren’t ICE officers swarming the streets of Midtown and the subway looking for random people to detain. I feel perfectly, 100% safe from immigration officers in my daily life.

I recognize that even U.S. citizens are having issues at borders and airports, but I maintain that American citizens “of color” systematically being detained on the streets and ordered to show papers while going about their business is not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, resist! That's not the law. The government has the burden of proof.

You’re not a POC, are you?

NP. I am a “POC” (I hate this term) lawyer and I agree with this in principle. But I’m not scared of being “disappeared” or walking around in general. I live in NYC and walk around all the time without a wallet (including ID), and have no plans of changing this.

People are being hysterical. Many years ago I studied abroad in Russia, which is actually a country where authorities can and will stop foreign-looking people (or anyone) and ask for your papers. This is not anything even remotely close to that.

lol better start carrying your papers on you. Can’t wait to see you try to lawyer your way out of being arrested by a private in the 82nd or mask ICE agents.

The Trump administration is planning to conduct major immigration raids in three U.S. cities per week, according to three sources familiar with the planning. One of the sources described the operations as “all hands on deck.”

Operations began Sunday in Chicago, New York City began Tuesday, and three officials said they were planning for the next operation to take place in Aurora, Colorado, on Thursday. However, two sources familiar with the planning said Wednesday the Aurora operation was called off temporarily due to media leaks. One source said the leaks posed an operational security risk for officers involved.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/are-cities-ice-raids-are-taking-place-rcna189390

PP here. Yeah, I see absolutely no need to do that. My point is that the immigration raids - and I am not addressing the merits of those and due process issues they might raise - are exactly that, raids, where ICE thinks it can pick up people without papers. Like immigration court. There aren’t ICE officers swarming the streets of Midtown and the subway looking for random people to detain. I feel perfectly, 100% safe from immigration officers in my daily life.

I recognize that even U.S. citizens are having issues at borders and airports, but I maintain that American citizens “of color” systematically being detained on the streets and ordered to show papers while going about their business is not a thing.

Coming soon to a neighborhood block near you. This is happening people, unless the public draws a red line and says absolutely not. If ICE wants to get warrants and target specific people, then I am all for it. But when we are at the point where an exchange like this is taking place that people have to carry papers, we are no longer the USA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Being a citizen doesn’t matter. They will disappear anyone.

Deport anyone here illegally, much to the hysterical dismay of democrats.

You say that but people who are US citizens have been deported and placed in a prison in El Salvador for over 3 months. Once you are out of the country and in a prison you are out of luck. ICE was trying to do that to the NJ mayor that got arrested. The judge stopped it.

Name them.

They actually don’t know where they’ve gone.

https://sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/ice-has-disappeared-48-new-mexico-residents-attorneys-say/#:~:text=In%20the%20first%20week%20of%20March%2C%20U.S.,alleges%20all%2048%20%E2%80%9Chave%20been%20forcibly%20disappeared.%E2%80%9D

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, resist! That's not the law. The government has the burden of proof.

You’re not a POC, are you?

NP. I am a “POC” (I hate this term) lawyer and I agree with this in principle. But I’m not scared of being “disappeared” or walking around in general. I live in NYC and walk around all the time without a wallet (including ID), and have no plans of changing this.

People are being hysterical. Many years ago I studied abroad in Russia, which is actually a country where authorities can and will stop foreign-looking people (or anyone) and ask for your papers. This is not anything even remotely close to that.

lol better start carrying your papers on you. Can’t wait to see you try to lawyer your way out of being arrested by a private in the 82nd or mask ICE agents.

The Trump administration is planning to conduct major immigration raids in three U.S. cities per week, according to three sources familiar with the planning. One of the sources described the operations as “all hands on deck.”

Operations began Sunday in Chicago, New York City began Tuesday, and three officials said they were planning for the next operation to take place in Aurora, Colorado, on Thursday. However, two sources familiar with the planning said Wednesday the Aurora operation was called off temporarily due to media leaks. One source said the leaks posed an operational security risk for officers involved.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/are-cities-ice-raids-are-taking-place-rcna189390

PP here. Yeah, I see absolutely no need to do that. My point is that the immigration raids - and I am not addressing the merits of those and due process issues they might raise - are exactly that, raids, where ICE thinks it can pick up people without papers. Like immigration court. There aren’t ICE officers swarming the streets of Midtown and the subway looking for random people to detain. I feel perfectly, 100% safe from immigration officers in my daily life.

I recognize that even U.S. citizens are having issues at borders and airports, but I maintain that American citizens “of color” systematically being detained on the streets and ordered to show papers while going about their business is not a thing.

Coming soon to a neighborhood block near you. This is happening people, unless the public draws a red line and says absolutely not. If ICE wants to get warrants and target specific people, then I am all for it. But when we are at the point where an exchange like this is taking place that people have to carry papers, we are no longer the USA.

I disagree that this is happening or imminent. I’m not denying that they’re conducting aggressive immigration raids, I’m saying that I don’t think we’re anywhere near a point that random American citizens are going to be targeted in the streets by ICE and should be carrying proof of citizenship as a proactive measure. I think that is hysteria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always carry ID. Female WASP. Exception would be walking in the neighborhood.

And, when I lived and worked overseas, I always carried my passport.

+1

They run your ID and if it’s up to date, accurate and matches your face and other IDs, yours all set.

If they run it and it’s fake that’s illegal and you can get fined, confiscated, jailed and more.

As an American, or someone visiting, there should never be a situation where I am stopped without cause to have an ID run. Do you see how absurd this is?

We fought entire wars over this. I am not going to start showing my papers because some middle school dropout asks.