Comment on Could You Prove You’re a US Citizen?
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
You can tell the guards there that you’re a citizen, but they’ll likely respond with some version of “tell it to the judge.” Your immigration-court appearance could be weeks, or even months, away. You will wait behind bars. There’s no right to counsel in immigration court — if you can’t afford a lawyer, you’ll have to represent yourself. When you finally see the inside of a courtroom, it could be what ICE calls a “mass removal” hearing with dozens of other defendants. You won’t have a chance to talk to a judge.
Holy fucking shit. The injustice in this would cause me have a violent meltdown.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 days ago
“Would?” This is what’s happening.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I meant if I was the affected person
flandish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
then they’ll just say “see this is not how a true american acts this guy must be a terrorist.”
they gaslight in this way.
the trick is to protest, yell, scream, vote, email, etc NOW.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ye obviously. But as an autistic person, having to directly face such injustice would probably get me shot.