Ok, good. I’m glad that happened. Because now my suspicion is more solid. Not that this happened but we have new information.
They don’t give a flying fuck about your “papers.” I don’t recommend walking around with a birth certificate or social security card. Your passport is questionable too.
Why? Because they will take them, and say you had none anyway. Suddenly you are no longer who you say you are to any things that need them.
They have arrest quotas, not identification quotas.
Wow, really?
Quotas were introduced in the Stalinist USSR at one point in the 1930s, I think. Before that, you had to prove that you were innocent to have a shot at escaping imprisonment. Before THAT, authorities had to prove you did something wrong (they almost always found something, though).
Both of these early approaches were simply too inefficient to man the gulags and run the country into the ground, I guess.
At least many native Americans have land on which they can retreat and which they can defend.
Not for long
“Says here you’re from…NEW MEXICO! HAH! GOTCHA! I KNEW YOU WERE A MEXICAN!”
Aye, they did that thing we all told you they’d do.
i can’t make sense of this comment in this context, which is to say a Native man sharing the story of his arrest, and your statement which suggests he deserved it?
the leopards comments are moving from unhelpful to actively harmful, from my point of view. you’re participating in the further dehumanization of one of the most historically oppressed peoples in this country.
edit typo
People have been saying to carry all your identifying papers around with you in case you get stopped.
Others have correctly pointed out that ICE does not care about what papers you have with you and they will arrest you regardless.
There’s your context.
Bingo
