• MagicShel
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    9 days ago

    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.

    Pedro Guzman

    Mark Daniel Lyttle

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      Unless you habitually carry your passport

      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

      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.

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      9 days ago

      Yes, a lot of us can because our licenses provide that verification.

      Are licenses not like that in other states?

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        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.

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          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.

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        I doubt that will work under Trump plan. Better not be brown and if you are carry that passport thing or something.

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          Why would Trump roll back anti-illegal license requirements? That’s kinda his thing.