You know. Like Nazi Germany.
So we asked a legal expert, what documents should people be carrying when stopped by agents?
“That is a really good question, especially in light of all the rights violations that ICE is doing. It’s hit or miss,” said Veronica Garcia, a senior staff attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. “There’s what you should carry and whether they’re going to take your proof of what you’re carrying as truth [...] .”
Under federal law, registered foreign nationals, such as green card holders, must carry proof of registration with them at all times. Prior to a second Trump administration, this was rarely enforced.
Chicago Tribune
It's not just green card holders any more.
[N]umerous U.S. citizens and others have reported being detained, including a 44-year-old U.S. citizen who said agents zip-tied her and questioned her after work at a downtown bar earlier this month, and a Rogers Park man who agents fined $130 for not carrying his legal papers with him when they questioned him about his legal status last week.
The woman, Maria Greeley, told the Tribune she had a copy of her passport with her. But because she’s Latina, she said the agents told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley and called her a liar. The agents let her go after an hour, she said.
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