YSK: How to document that you are a US citizen
https://www.usa.gov/prove-us-citizenship
The most common way to show that you are a US citizen is to show a passport. However, only about 50% of US citizens have a passport.
An alternative to a passport is a Certificate of Citizenship.
Certificates of Citizenship and Naturalization show proof that someone is a U.S. citizen. The website https://www.usa.gov/prove-us-citizenship shows how you can get or replace these documents.
Prove your citizenship: born in the U.S. with no birth certificate. If you were born in the U.S. and have no birth certificate, learn how to get documentation to prove you are a U.S. citizen.
Prove your citizenship: born outside the U.S. to a U.S. citizen parent. Prove your U.S. citizenship without a birth certificate if you were born outside the U.S. to a U.S. citizen.
Just don’t be brown. That’ll keep you safe for a couple of years.
Then be white but only ever say nice things about the glorious leader. You’ll be good for another year. Oh, you may need to be a publicly avowed ‘christian’ too.
Then continue to be white and christian, and be sure to be a card carrying, tribute paying member of the party of the glorious leader.
That sounds very patriotic. Thank you!
ICE is not asking people for proof of citizenship. They are pulling up in unmarked vehicles, wearing masks, and grabbing people off the street.
I agree you should make sure you do have proof. But don’t expect it to stop armed masked thugs if they roll up for you.
I know it is possible for some people to get a second, valid passport if they travel often enough, so that they can travel when one is being renewed, or if they travel between countries where a visa stamp from some other country might deny them entry.
Maybe “I look brown so ICE may confiscate my passport without due process” can now be a reason to get a second valid passport …
Elsewhere in a comment someone mentioned Passport Cards. iirc they’re only valid for travel to Mexico and Canada, but they are proofs of citizenship, and you can have a card as well as a passport.
Its the passport that also works for domestic air travel now that they banned drivers’ licenses.
It does not have your address on it, so its a safer document to use to prove your age.
Not to discount this helpful and important information but, for the people you’re trying to direct this to, I genuinely don’t think it matters. This administration has thrown out habeas corpus and due process. And they have done this because a substantial portion of the population voted in favor of kicking people out who don’t look like them. It’s called Nationalism. And with that comes Fascism.
The core identity of the United States is disintegrating by public opinion. The one thing that brought pride to generations of Americans is being driven out and replaced with the same reasons people had left other countries in favor of the US. It’s gut-wrenching.
So, yeah, get your papers but don’t let it fool you into believing it protects you.
Hah - also funny to look at “only about 50% of US citizens have a passport” to understand exactly why we’ve turned into Nationalists.
I think only 50% of people have passports is because most people can’t afford to travel and a bunch of them that do just wanted to visit Canada or Mexico
Until 9/11 we could visit Canada and Mexico with a drivers license or birth certificate and 3/4 of the time only the driver has to show theirs and just vouch for the whole car.
We drove through southern Ontario probably 20 times in the more 80s alone.
LOL
You think it is about citizenship do you? That’s cute.
Just be white. That’s all. This is ethnic cleansing, and it will get a lot worse over the coming months.
Also, your elections were rigged. You’re living through a hostile takeover of your country. If election laws didn’t matter, and national security breaches didn’t put him in jail, you really think this has anything to do with legality?
They are just using the belief of the masses in law against themselves, the same way we all believe a dollar has “gold backing”.
The moment we stop believing, is the moment we will be free.
Edit: If you’ve wondered why everything looks like a coup since he got in, perhaps it is because it is one.
Being white certainly helps, but they are also detaining white people now:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-mooney-canadian-detained-ice-us-mexico/
With no more due process, an ID and proof of citizenship do not matter at all. They’re not checking ID’s before hauling people away. And given ICE is going around masked and without uniforms there is no way to verify their authority either. I absolutely loath violence to a point, and that tipping point is the safety of the people in my family and community, regardless of their citizenship. If a group of unidentified masked gunman are attempting to kidnap someone, the only truly patriotic American response is to defend their liberty with all necessary force. Given the murder happy training of our law enforcement, that will obviously result in tragic deaths. But that, protecting the people (all the people, not just citizens) from a corrupt government, is the fundamental justification for the 2nd amendment, always has been.
Tl;dr: get a passport. If you have a passport, get it out right now. Look at it. Hold it. Is it expired? How many people do you think have a passport but have no idea where it is? Don’t be one of those folk
I keep mine in my work backpack at all times. That bag sits next to my desk when I work at home, next to my person when I’m in the office, and converts to my go back when I go on vacation. It’s with me almost always. I’m a white guy who can trace his family back to ellis island, so my risk is significantly lower that many others, but I’m also very outwardly critical of Nazis, so it’s not no risk.
Personally, I would rather just get fucked up by ICE rather than comply with the “papers please” state. Who knows, maybe I’ll even end up in the news.
