• CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I am american, moreso than most realistically. My family has been texan since before even texas was american. I am brown and have a Latin last name, there’s a ton of us the same here in texas. In my family the generation before me was the last that inherited spanish from the family and none are fluent (texmex spanglish at best), at least not without schooling.

    This is all to say that my drivers license is on me at all times outside of my house. I carry it everywhere, even on my smoke breaks at work, even when I’m washing my car, even when I’m checking my mail.

    I shouldn’t be living like this, I don’t deserve to live like this, my rights as an American citizen say I should be protected against this, but here we are.

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      I shouldn’t be living like this, I don’t deserve to live like this…

      You’re right, and I’m so sorry you and others are going through this.

      I’ve always been critical of the US and the bed of racism it was founded and grown on. I’ve never been more ashamed of it than I have in the last decade. So many decent folk have been hurt by this administration and those who think like them that it feels insurmountable to come back from.

      Rest assured that those perpetuating these crimes will be held to account, even if they have to be hunted down like Saddam Hussein. There will be no quarter, no amount of money, and no mercy to save them from their fate; in life nor afterward.

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      The thing is, unfortunately, they’ll call your drivers license fake and disappear you all the same if their app says you’re not legal. Apparently their facial recognition app is never wrong and no matter what documentation you may have on you at the time, if the app says you’re going on a plane to El Salvador, well buddy I got bad fuckin news for ya.

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        You are absolutely correct. They’ve already done it .

        Leonardo García Venegas, a Florida-born U.S. citizen with a REAL ID, was forcibly arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at an Alabama construction site after agents claimed his identification was “fake,” Venegas told Noticias Telemundo in Spanish on Friday.

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        16 hours ago

        its been dying for decades, it was just a slow decline each presidency. cant really survive as the most right wing country amongst other western countries. also the fact that many conservative pundits/politicians cant survive politically in other western come to the USA too.

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      White many-generational American here.

      In addition to license, I’ve always kept passport card and CBP Global Entry at all times.