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For fellow Americans living in cities where ICE is active, many people, especially those of Hispanic descent, are already carrying around passports on their persons at all times because they're rightfully afraid of being forcibly disappeared or deported to some random South American country.

A passport card can be obtained for $30 from the Department of State. It is considered exactly equivalent to a passport within the US, but it's the size of a credit card. It is a valid travel document for land and sea travel within North America and the Caribbean. It also counts as a Real ID. The card is good for ten years.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html

Do not do this if you are transgender or have an X gender marker. They will cancel your passport and tell you to apply for a new one with your sex assigned at birth.

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[-] OshagHennessey@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

YSK if ICE thinks you're too brown, they'll just say yours is fake and deport you anyway. It's already happened to US citizens.

[-] Insekticus@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Deadset. Which moron actually thinks mexican-looking peoples with actual passports are being approached on the streets and let go??

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[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

You think ICE cares? You think ICE even understands that?

[-] mech@feddit.org 16 points 2 weeks ago

YSK a card in your wallet won't help you much when an ICE agent points a gun at your head and tells you your passport looks fake, without even looking at it.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If this form factor for ID isn't well known enough for them to know about it, I doubt they received training on its existence.

Which means having this card will make them assume it's fake by default. "That's not what a US passport looks like!" Thereby increasing their deluded suspicions, rather than reducing them.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

The problem is not lack of training. This isn’t a “whoopsie-poopsie”. They’re doing it on purpose and if someone looks brown enough they get kidnapped. With luck they get released later.

[-] mech@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I doubt they received training ~~on its existence~~.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

They already did this to people with Real ID drivers licenses, which have the same requirements to acquire as a passport.

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[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you have to prove you have rights then no one has rights.

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently ICE doesn't have to look at it.

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao it's been shown multiple times that even with a passport shown to ICE they'll just call it fake if they want to abduct you.

Yup I was going to comment the same. The physical passport might be useful after the fact once you're in ICE holding being processed after x amount of hours/days. But then again at that point they would look you up in their systems so having the physical passport in your wallet may end up being a waste of time anyway.

The fact is if the ICE goon squad you encounter feels like arresting and detaining US citizens they're going to do it.

And that's assuming the ICE goons don't make up charges of assaulting them or similar, in which case I'm not sure if those US citizens being charged get released with a future court date or are detained indefinitely.

[-] Pulsar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Having a passport card will definitely make it easier for the deportation official to release you after assault you, put you in handcuffs and take you to the station for speaking Spanish in a Mexican restaurant.

[-] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Would be a useful tip in a world where ICE follows the law.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

What a time to be alive.

[-] doublenut@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

You're trolling right? No one should need to unlawfully identify themselves at the bequest of nazis.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

What should be is not the same as what is.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

What IS is that they don't care about little pieces of paper in your wallet.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

You should know that you are not required to identify yourself to the gestapo. This post is in un-American.

The way to combat these idiots is everyone refusing to show identification .

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you. Papers, Please isn't the ending we need to run to. They can't treat us like criminals cause they feel like it

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[-] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

A REAL ID is also valid proof of citizenship. ICE clearly does not care.

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[-] PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm 100% not showing my papers.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have papers, they're holstered and chambered. there's about 17 pages of papers too.

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

This would be more effective if everyone just affixed a symbol to their sleeve.

Maybe that symbol can be easily recognizable like a star or something. We can even make it bright yellow or gold so it's visible from a distance.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

“YSK you should comply with authoritarian governments”

Yall are so fucking cooked.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Watch the comments advocating for resisting the fascist takeover and see the excuses and downvotes pour in.

So cooked.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

YSK you can suck me twice

[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

YSK: you want to take up as much time as possible (depending on your needs) when talking to ICE. One minute talking to you is one minute they're not teargassing an infant.

[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

YSK, you don't need a fucking passport to be safe in this country. FUCK ICE AND RESIST

[-] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

I will absolutely refuse any unlawful order to see my “papers”.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Colored man reaching for something in his jacket or pants?

YSK he's about to get shot.

[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

ICE is not harassing my area, or even my state that I know of, so there's a possibility I turn out to be a coward but no.

I'm not required to show documentation even to the actual cops in my state (just to identify myself, which i can do verbally), ICE has no legal power over me and I'm not going to pretend they do. If they shoot me, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's not the worst cause to die for.

(I'm also white, just for context)

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

“This isn’t real” -ICEcuck

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