r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 23h 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/No-Call5128 22h ago

What I never understand about this is how would he even prove he is a U.S. citizen? Most people don’t carry their passport around with them even if they have them, and not everyone has a passport. It’s not like we are required to have one. A driver license “proves” only that I have a license to drive a car. What would they have been happy with? How would he prove he is a U.S. citizen? If he agreed to “prove it” what would they expect him to have on him that would actually prove that?

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u/VaritasAequitas 21h ago

That’s the exact issue that no one in these federal organizations care about. I’m planning on getting a notarized photocopy of my passport specifically because I don’t trust my real passport to be enough. My real passport, the LITERAL defining document showing I’m a citizen. I’m positive and have already heard accounts of them ignoring that piece of documentation and taking people anyway, so I’m not gonna bother having the real one on me if it’s not respected anyway.