• aramis87@fedia.io
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    They picked up at least once citizen who had his passport card on him and put him in detention anyway, saying the card was fake. Which is why due process for everyone is important, because otherwise you’d never get the opportunity to prove you’re really a citizen.

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      Passport cards should be trivially easy for government officials to validate, if they care to. Border agents can, after all. Simply confiscating them and saying “they’re fake” shows they don’t care whether it is fake or not.

      If you have any melanin at all, you should carry your passport card with you at all times, but also keep your full passport at home, in a location that your family and/or trusted friends know about, so they can produce it when ICE comes for you and confiscates your passport card.

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        if they care to

        ICE doesn’t care if your skin is too dark, or your name sounds vaguely Arabic or Spanish.

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          Or if you’re just in the wrong place at the wrong time, especially when they need to make a quota.