• @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    I’m white and hang out with mostly white people who don’t understand how scary this is.

    I ask them if they can prove to me - right now - that they’re a citizen. Lots of them legitimately think a Driver’s License is enough.

    I explain that it is not proof of citizenship and that lots of people have licenses without being a citizen. So if they were brown, they might be arrested based on their lack of papers.

    And once arrested and sent to a camp, your ability to produce any documentation you may have diminishes to almost nothing.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      135 months ago

      Also, a bad agent can just get rid of your passport. So carry a photocopy, and let the lawyer your family gets show up with the real one in court.

      • @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        155 months ago

        Get a passport card. It’s valid ID, proves you’re a citizen, and doesn’t have your address on it so cops and the fascists from ICE don’t learn where you live. Keep the original passport somewhere secure, like you said

    • @VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      Demand your white friends show them their green card or birth certificate.

      If you think that’s a joke, ask around. I’ve been asked that twice in my life. But because I’m not Default American™, I have to prove a lot harder that I was born here.

      • Flying Squid
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        75 months ago

        And if they do, tell them, “no, the long form birth certificate,” since that was demanded of Obama (and it still wasn’t enough).

      • Yup. Everyone is quick to forget how the US treated Irish, Italian, and Jewish people in past generations. There really is such a thing as “not white enough”, and when these jerks run out of people to pick on, that’s next.