If a cop rolled up on you, could you prove right then and there you are a citizen? Unless you habitually carry your passport or birth certificate or immigration papers, almost certainly not.
Are you going to have any way to prove it while you are in a holding facility with no access to a lawyer or at best a public defender who has heard the same story 80 times today?
The U.S. passport card is a wallet-sized, plastic passport that has no visa pages. The card is proof of U.S. citizenship and identity, and has the same length of validity as the passport book.
When your non-citizen family members go …
I’m losing a school kid next week. I think her mom is scared so she’s going home. Kid is non-verbal, non-ambulatory, super sweet and doing well at school. What will her life look like in Venezuela? Dad is staying, but he can’t work and take care of the kiddo.
Didn’t they understand that risk when they entered the country illegally? I mean I know they are in a desperate situation, but if I was fleeing to Canada and then I get kicked out because I’m there illegally what right do I have to complain?
I think what you mean to say is “deporting a citizen would be illegal.” It is certainly possible for police and presidents to do illegal things. Remember the broad immunity granted to presidents by SCOTUS?
You can’t deport citizens
If a cop rolled up on you, could you prove right then and there you are a citizen? Unless you habitually carry your passport or birth certificate or immigration papers, almost certainly not.
Are you going to have any way to prove it while you are in a holding facility with no access to a lawyer or at best a public defender who has heard the same story 80 times today?
This certainly wouldn’t be the first time an American Citizen got deported.
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This would be a good time to remind everyone that you can actually get a passport card that will fit in your wallet:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html
Yes, a lot of us can because our licenses provide that verification.
Are licenses not like that in other states?
You don’t have to be a citizen to get a license in a lot of places. I actually don’t know of any that do but clearly I’m not fully informed.
I don’t think illegals can get a license here.
Non-citizens have to provide documentation to convert their out-of-country license.
Looks like anyone who has a “non-compliant” license is able to maintain it but new ones are no longer issued.
Illegals are a significant form of labor in this red state but the state hates them.
I doubt that will work under Trump plan. Better not be brown and if you are carry that passport thing or something.
Why would Trump roll back anti-illegal license requirements? That’s kinda his thing.
Course not you put them in the US Justice System where corporations can then exploit their incarceration with free labor
They aren’t volunteering so it’s recommended to just call it slavery.
When your non-citizen family members go … I’m losing a school kid next week. I think her mom is scared so she’s going home. Kid is non-verbal, non-ambulatory, super sweet and doing well at school. What will her life look like in Venezuela? Dad is staying, but he can’t work and take care of the kiddo.
Didn’t they understand that risk when they entered the country illegally? I mean I know they are in a desperate situation, but if I was fleeing to Canada and then I get kicked out because I’m there illegally what right do I have to complain?
Mom’s visa is about to expire. She doesn’t think they’ll renew it and she’s afraid to try.
I think what you mean to say is “deporting a citizen would be illegal.” It is certainly possible for police and presidents to do illegal things. Remember the broad immunity granted to presidents by SCOTUS?
Maybe say that to veterans that were promised citizenship but got deported for a crime.
We have before.
https://immigrationhistory.org/item/mexican-repatriation/#:~:text=Demand for their labor dropped,million Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
They can and have.
It’s resulted in lawsuits so we know it has. What’s really scary is what about the people who didn’t manage to phone home?