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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just give me a reasonable example of someone who can’t get an ID[/quote]

“ Everything that proves Chartez Tucker exists fits in a plastic grocery bag.

There’s a wadded-up photocopy of his expired Michigan identification card. Some pieces of mail that look like they’ve been through the wash. A few pieces of this-and-that to try to authenticate his 45 years on Earth.

“Right now, he’s a John Doe. A nobody,” says his sister, Jacqueline Tucker.

Her brother cuts her off.

“I am somebody!” he says. “I just can’t prove it.”

The two were recently at a social services agency on Detroit’s east side to begin the process of acquiring a state ID so he can get an apartment. But the process can take six months and unfold through a series of fits, starts and bureaucratic walls that reveals the everyday hassle of being poor.

For Tucker, it means bus trips, long waits in government offices and cobbling together money for copies of his birth certificate, academic and other records. He lost his ID with his wallet four years ago. When he talked to Bridge last month, Tucker had been to the Social Security office four times without luck.

“They make it so hard,” said Tucker, who lives with his mother, doesn’t work and suffers from seizures.

[b]Lacking identification is a surprisingly common problem, particularly in cities: As many as 1 in 10 Americans don’t have a government-issued ID, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. Other studies claim as many as 13 percent of African-Americans lack IDs.[/b]
https://www.bridgemi.com/urban-affairs/poor-michigan-no-id-i-am-somebody-i-just-cant-prove-it?amp
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