• half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    I’m certain that these jobs are attracting sociopaths who literally want to use their positions of power to harm people. It was bad enough with regular cops but with ICE flaunting their disregard for the law the monsters are coming out in droves. Terrifying.

    Anyway, this article has convinced me to start carrying my passport as a vaguely Latino looking person with a Spanish last name in Texas. (I am Filipino American lol.)

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      9 days ago

      I doubt that will help you. So easy to throw that passport away, claim you stole it, or it is fake. Do it anyway, but don’t expect it will help.

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        9 days ago

        Yeah, I know, I had the same thought: it’s not actually about documents so documents won’t stop them if they want to take you. There’s already a story out of Florida where ICE refused to release a citizen even after he produced a birth certificate and a judge dismissed the case against him.