The main advantage is that it’s a redundant form of citizenship ID. ICE can always say it is fake and confiscate it, but then you have your passport book waiting at home for your lawyer to take to the detention center to get you out (once they find out where they took you).
mech@feddit.org 2 days ago
YSK a card in your wallet won’t help you much when an ICE agent points a gun at your head and tells you your passport looks fake, without even looking at it.
dhork@lemmy.world 2 days ago
moody@lemmings.world 2 days ago
Most Americans don’t own a passport in the first place.
dhork@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Anyone who fails the “Peter Griffin in a Fez” test needs to get one. And double up on the card and book.
Because it doesn’t matter where you were born, or what the facts are. ICE is targeting people who they believe don’t belong here, based on how they look and sound. Having the card on your person is no guarantee, but maybe it will work if they are in a good mood.
It’s sad that this is what it has come to in America, of all places, but here we are.
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Why would they let your lawyer find out where they took you?
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Yeah, but you’re at least a little more likely to survive.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Are you actively encouraging people to not seek protections against a fascist regime just because it wouldn’t be 100% effective?
RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 2 days ago
Maybe armbands with star of david would help like it did during Nazi regime?
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
How in the world did you draw that conclusion? I’m merely pointing out that they’re discriminating on skin color alone, but that wasn’t an advocacy against a passport card.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Apparently they don’t even bother with that now, they’ll go after anyone
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
If this form factor for ID isn’t well known enough for them to know about it, I doubt they received training on its existence.
Which means having this card will make them assume it’s fake default, therefore increasing their deluded suspicions, rather than reducing them.
mech@feddit.org 2 days ago
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The problem is not lack of training. This isn’t a “whoopsie-poopsie”. They’re doing it on purpose and if someone looks brown enough they get kidnapped. With luck they get released later.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They already did this to people with Real ID drivers licenses, which have the same requirements to acquire as a passport.