“There is no legal requirement that US citizens carry papers or have proof of their citizenship on them,” said an attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.
Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights—and a top Trump administration official is claiming the government has the authority to do so.
A Somali-born Minnesota man was alarmed by the practice last Tuesday when immigration agents tackled him, handcuffed him, and arrested him, refusing to accept his REAL ID as proof of his legal residence in a video that was widely circulated on social media.
The man, who identified only as Mubashir, was placed into a chokehold and forced to his knees in the snow on his way to get food in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, which has a large Somali population.
Plenty still will. They’ve decided both sides have a point and both sides exaggerate and both sides are pretty bad but not fully evil. They define themselves as between the two parties. The right realized that and ran all the way right, especially as they noticed many on the right defined themselves as to the right of the centrists, however far they were when they first thought of their views.
To accept what is happening requires accepting that loved ones among masses have adopted beliefs once reserved for foolish, reprehensible, evil losers. But few among us have grappled with what our ancestors who we may have known, believed before the invasion of Poland.