Show me your papers. If you are an American citizen, what papers?

 "Show me your papers." ICE should not demand of anyone in what we once had a democracy. Videos of show American citizens are being snatched and brutally taken down if they look like a migrant. ICE does not even pause to ask first.. They just throw their suspect n to the ground, dragged and cuffed by a masked paramilitary. So, what papers should American citizens carry with them? We do not have a national ID card. Drivers license and SSI cards are not proof. Should all Americans have to carry their birth certificates around? Only a small percent of Americans have passports, and migrants with green cards have some evidence of legality, but what about the rest of us? Heaven help you if you do not look Anglo and have an accent. There is a history here of show me your papers laws. SB 1070 at the Supreme Court: What's at Stake | American Civil Liberties Union

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Target employees detained by federal officers were U.S. citizens, legislator says

Minnesota Rep. Michael Howard, who represents Richfield, said the employees also were injured in the incident.

Racial profiling in immigration stops and detention greenlighted by the Supreme Court updated to 10/15/2025

Update:10/15/2025 Colorado immigrants' rights groups sue Trump Administration, ICE over alleged warrantless arrests - CBS Colorado. This class action suit, if it makes it to the Supreme Court, has national implications.

Update 9/27/2025 An excellent in-depth article of how ICE is snatching migrants, mostly who are not criminals, just working hard at their jobs, and how it impacts mountain communities. The cost is both human and economic. Grand County lost a familiar face at a McDonald's window, and frightened children are fleeing schools. ‘There’s a human cost’: Colorado mountain towns see student absences, community tension in wake of growing ICE operations | SkyHiNews.com

Continuing with original post: The 6-3 Supreme Court just gave the green light to ICE to snatch people off the street because they look Hispanic and sound Hispanic. It is racial profiling, pure and simple. I am disgusted. The voice of dissent, Justice Sotomayor, wrote:"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job," she wrote. "Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." Trump's Supreme Court is chipping away at civil rights with no explanation other than "it's not our job to set immigration enforcement policy," and we need to call them out. That should send a chill through anyone who does not look white for the precedent this sets. Supreme Court gives no explanation as it hands Trump another win

The old warning to anyone who looks Hispanic (or even native Americans), carry your papers ready to show them on the spot, is no real protection as even green card holders and those born here have birth certificates, get detained by ICE. ICE is putting many in holding pens while they "sort it out", and even then, whether the detainee can afford an attorney or even speaks English is a question. Their chance for a "due process" hearing after waiting days in a slammer is a roll of the dice and the hope that some non-profit comes to their rescue.

This is sheer terror, as told to me by my Hispanic friends. Even showing an ICE agent your papers is not always helpful. There are no figures released by the Trump regime that report numbers of those wrongfully detained and even deported, but there are past studies that detail that there were plenty of wrongful detentions dating years before ICE was given a quota ot snatch anyone to make their daily tally. Anecdotal evidence that it is happening now is plentiful if you do a Google search.

La Corte Suprema, con 6 votos a favor y 3 en contra, acaba de dar luz verde al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) para que secuestre a personas en la calle por su apariencia y sonido hispanos. Es discriminación racial, pura y simplemente. Estoy indignada. La voz disidente, la jueza Sotomayor, escribió: "No deberíamos tener que vivir en un país donde el gobierno pueda detener a cualquiera que parezca latino, hable español y parezca tener un trabajo mal pagado". "En lugar de quedarnos de brazos cruzados mientras se pierden nuestras libertades constitucionales, disiento". La Corte Suprema de Trump está socavando los derechos civiles sin más explicación que "no es nuestra responsabilidad establecer políticas de control migratorio", y debemos denunciarlos. Esto debería estremecer a cualquiera que no parezca blanco por el precedente que esto sienta. La vieja advertencia para cualquiera que parezca hispano (o incluso nativo americano): llevar sus documentos listos para mostrarlos en el acto no es una protección real, ya que incluso los titulares de tarjetas de residencia y los nacidos aquí con certificados de nacimiento son detenidos por el ICE, que simplemente los pone en celdas mientras "resuelven sus problemas". Aun así, si el detenido puede pagar un abogado o si habla inglés, tiene la oportunidad de una audiencia de "debido proceso" después de esperar días en una cárcel es una cuestión de suerte, y la esperanza de que alguna organización sin fines de lucro venga a rescatarlo es un juego de azar. Esto es puro terror, como me contaron mis amigos hispanos. Ni siquiera mostrarle los documentos a un agente del ICE sirve de nada. El régimen de Trump no ha publicado cifras que informen sobre el número de detenidos injustamente e incluso deportados, pero sí hay estudios anteriores que detallan que hubo muchas detenciones injustas años antes de que el ICE tuviera una cuota para capturar a cualquiera por día. Hay abundante evidencia anecdótica de que esto está sucediendo ahora si se busca en Google.

Trump's love of Nazi rhetoric and symbolic gestures is becoming a habit

 Heil, Boss Trump. Trump's love of Nazi rhetoric and symbolic gestures is becoming a habit, as well as his dog whistles to white nationalists and supremacists. This should not be passed off as a tongue slip or an intern goof. Watch how frequently he uses the Aryan fist. It is a closed fist, turned forward and sometimes pumped from a bent arm. Once the symbol of black power, it has become currently the symbol of white power as the fist becomes white and the background changes to black.

Reports and polls indicate that more racial minorities are toying with supporting Trump. They need to get a grip on reality that a second Trump term will not treat them fairly or the same as his friends since the cultish body of his supporters contains so many racist white nationalists and their sympathizers. The white supremacists get the message, even if you look the other way.

Add this Aryan fist pump to his lists of Hitler worship references: dog-whistling to white racists using terms like: "immigrants poisoning our blood", and "Reich" as a goal like Hitler's goal of establishing a Third Reich empire (oops, blame the intern) neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville are "fine people," too, which was the epic false equivalency that inspired Biden to run for president, and the call to activism of the white supremacist Proud Boys on January 6 to riot. Trump has been heard to call white supremacists "my people".

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/donald-trump-white-supremacists-my-people

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4676368-donald-trump-truth-social-video-references-unified-reich

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/white-supremacy-returned-mainstream-politics/

Below from https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/aryan-fist

ALTERNATE NAMES: White Power Fist, White Fist

The upright clenched fist has long been used as a symbol (both graphically and as a hand gesture) to represent themes such as defiance, unity, and power.  In the 1960s and 1970s, black nationalist groups in the United States and elsewhere often used a dark-skinned clenched fist gesture or image as a "black power" symbol.  By the 1980s, white supremacists in the United States and elsewhere had appropriated this symbol, substituting a white fist.  White supremacists frequently claim that they use the symbol to represent "white pride" or "white power."

_______________________________continuing with my post:

A friend of mine, a Hispanic immigrant with newly acquired documents, was bemoaning Denver becoming such a destination and transit point for those migrants without documents. He himself said, "Trump will fix it," indicating if he could vote, he would vote for Trump. I took that to mean Trump will put such migrants in concentration camps and deport them. If that is the fix, then those who made it have little sympathy for their compatriots coming later. If that puzzles those who think birds of a feather should flock together, they should not be surprised. That is not the first time I have encountered that. I once asked a dear Asian friend of mine to explain this lack of sympathy to me about why those who went to the pain and effort to get to the US looked disdainfully at those later arrivals of the same race. He told me that this was common and that those like him, a descendent of Japanese-Americans imprisoned in World War II, did look with disdain at new arrivals they called "hot off the boat." I thought about it later and wondered if it was because new arrivals competed for jobs with them or that they should not have it easy, too, or they were somehow culturally inferior late-coming refugees? Any ideas? What I do know is if you are required" to show me your documents" to prove to a law officer demanding this because you look Hispanic, that will get an indignant reaction and a revolt against such anti-civil rights infringements and racial profiling. By then, if Trump wins, it will be too late because, as he promises, he will also control the Justice Department and the super majority of the Supreme Court.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-reinstates-arizona-show-me-your-papers-law-strikes-down-three-other