For fellow Americans living in cities where ICE is active, many people, especially those of Hispanic descent, are already carrying around passports on their persons at all times because they’re rightfully afraid of being forcibly disappeared or deported to some random South American country.
A passport card can be obtained for $30 from the Department of State. It is considered exactly equivalent to a passport within the US, but it’s the size of a credit card. It is a valid travel document for land and sea travel within North America and the Caribbean. It also counts as a Real ID. The card is good for ten years.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html
Do not do this if you are transgender or have an X gender marker. They will cancel your passport and tell you to apply for a new one with your sex assigned at birth.
Having a passport card will definitely make it easier for the deportation official to release you after assault you, put you in handcuffs and take you to the station for speaking Spanish in a Mexican restaurant.
YSK you can suck me twice
This would be more effective if everyone just affixed a symbol to their sleeve.
Maybe that symbol can be easily recognizable like a star or something. We can even make it bright yellow or gold so it’s visible from a distance.
Finally, a YSK which is actually a YSK.
“Is this meant to be your shield, my lord? A things that fits in your wallet like a credit card?”
Still seems like a hassle to have to pull that out. They should design something that’s more outwardly noticeable like a piece of clothing or maybe just a simple armband they can wear over their clothes that signifies they’re jewis-I mean legal or whatever.
Or just a stamp saying ‘this person is unwanted but haven’t found a reason to get rid of them yet’ so you can show to the next ice ‘agent’ you’ve already been harassed earlier.
Or maybe a tattoo on their forehead!
Apple has been trying to get states/governments to let them add their ID to Apple Wallet for years now. Only a handful of states have complied. I’m not sure if you can add a passport.
The most common misconception is that a cop will take your phone and have access to all your personal information plus they’re in your phone. That’s not how it’s intended to work (but absolutely can regardless of whether your state supports digital ID). The intended use is much like paying for goods, they hold up a reader, you open Wallet and select your ID, tap your phone to their reader, and they can see all the relevant information. And it’s encrypted and all that.
Of course, I’m talking about cops following procedure, not thugs working directly for Trump.
I would advise never using your phone. That just cant end well.
Your phone should never be involved in your interactions with cops. In fact you should literally shut it down to get it in its totally encrypted and hard locked state
I agree. I just mean, in theory, that’s the way it’s supposed to work.
If I had state ID on my phone and a cop asked for it with the reader, sure, I’ll do it. He wants the phone, I’m squeezing the side button five times to lock it so Face ID is disabled. That also prevents data access via the USB port until it’s unlocked. And oops, I forgot the passcode. Can’t prove I know it, I just use Face ID.
Ur better off just shutting it down. As long as it is still is AFU (after first unlock) theres all kinds of fuckery they can work with. It has to be ahard shutdown or reset
They can still just detain you because they can steal it or say there’s no way to verify your passport or ID isn’t fraudulent without further investigation so how about you spend a few days or weeks in jail while we sort it out 😉
But yes it is still a good idea and won’t hurt
You should know that you are not required to identify yourself to the gestapo. This post is in un-American.
The way to combat these idiots is everyone refusing to show identification .
Thank you. Papers, Please isn’t the ending we need to run to. They can’t treat us like criminals cause they feel like it
I thought that you did within 100m of an airport
Metes not miles
While I agree with the sentiment behind your post, this is like waving a copy of the Weimar constitution to the Gestapo.
i dont get what anyone’s so worried about, as a straight white man cops don’t seem to give me any trouble when i present my papers
My goodness. I can’t believe we are living in this era of fascism.
Good luck United States folk.
Ysk papers please within boarders is a regime in turmoil.
YSK if ICE thinks you’re too brown, they’ll just say yours is fake and deport you anyway. It’s already happened to US citizens.
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Source on this please!
Thank you so much!
Deadset. Which moron actually thinks mexican-looking peoples with actual passports are being approached on the streets and let go??
It is a valid travel document for land and sea travel within North America and the Caribbean.
The way you’ve phrased it sounds quite dystopian.
Why? That’s like saying an EU national ID card is a valid travel document within the Schengen area.
Having a need for a “valid travel document” to cover for your perceived ethnicity stinks of “papers, please” and I am alarmed that you cannot see that connection.
Uh, do you know what a “travel document” is? They’ve been required for international travel since the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. The “travel document” part of it has nothing to do with ethnicity.
You’re confusing two statements:
- A passport card is a travel document. Nothing wrong with this.
- A passport card can help you get out of situations with ICE if you appear Hispanic. This one is the one which is fucked up.
Do not do this if you are transgender or have an X gender marker.
Warnins should probably be bigger and up front, but that’s just me
Alternate title:
Give the government $30 to stop violating your civil liberties
Lol, my mom had to pay like somewhere between ¥10,000 to ¥30,000 (Reminbi) in “fines” just so the PRC governenment even legally recognize my existence, because one child policy violation.
Give the government $30 to maybe stop violating your civil liberties
A REAL ID is also valid proof of citizenship. ICE clearly does not care.
You’re incorrect on that https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2026/01/05/real-id-travel-immigration-status/88032182007/
All this tells you is that ICE indeed does not care.
REAL IDs are not proof of citizenship. They’re proof that you had legal status at the time of their issue.
