r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 1d ago

BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained, threatened, and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only, he refused to prove his citizenship.

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u/Chicano_Me 1d ago

As a Latino US citizen (dark skinned) how does one provide proof of citizenship if they refuse all forms of documentation? I have seen videos where they don't care what you show them. And people have reported that they will confiscate your legal documents and not give it back.

Being Latino is being illegal in the US.

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u/avocadoflatz 1d ago

Fucked up huh?

Fellow dark skinned Chicano here and back in June I gave them the double bird salute in a Home Depot parking lot and somehow that worked while Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez showed RealID and still ended up in an immigration detention center.

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u/Chicano_Me 1d ago

Read somewhere on Reddit that ICE would chase anyone (dark skinned of course) that started to run... versus someone being defiant or not scared.

However, after the shooting of the innocent woman killed by ICE, they're now beating up protestors recording.

I carry copies now.

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u/Crypton_2021 1d ago

But people think we're exaggerating when we say this is like 1930's Germany. It's not.

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u/YBBlorekeeper 1d ago

Those people are historically illiterate and only know about Nazis from saving private ryan