“There is no legal requirement that US citizens carry papers or have proof of their citizenship on them,” said an attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.
Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights—and a top Trump administration official is claiming the government has the authority to do so.
A Somali-born Minnesota man was alarmed by the practice last Tuesday when immigration agents tackled him, handcuffed him, and arrested him, refusing to accept his REAL ID as proof of his legal residence in a video that was widely circulated on social media.
The man, who identified only as Mubashir, was placed into a chokehold and forced to his knees in the snow on his way to get food in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, which has a large Somali population.
All of this is a feature, not a bug.
People in cities are almost all coded as too ethnic, too atheist, too gay, too liberal, too smart, etc…also, if you can punish those who are not properly taking their part in our car culture, that’s a huge win for the trucknutz crowd.
The poor are something the elitists (for all their bullshit talk about things like farming or mining or “the forgotten man”) love to crush anyway. Same for children - they are fodder for wars and the likes of Epstein and Taco’s whims.
Oh I am fully aware, but I find it important to point out the underlying thing they’re exploiting when you see statements like this. Just like passing ID laws and bans on porn are a subtext to censor LGBTQ people