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.
This is so fucked up. America is dying.
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.
yeah but in consolation space karen is getting substantially and yet unnoticeably richer
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.
White many-generational American here.
In addition to license, I’ve always kept passport card and CBP Global Entry at all times.
Who did you and your friends vote for?
But the implications of the report go considerably further, suggesting an agency completely out of control and flouting the Fourth Amendment at every turn.
Narrator: “It is not just the agency.”
I feel like there is a couple a constitutional amendments specifically for this situation. One in particular.
Ex Wells Fargo employee here, back in the early 2010s we used to have unrealistic sales quotas for bankers and high pressure to meet them, with sales phone meetings at the end each shift. The result was the scandal we’re familiar with, millions of fake profiles and/or authorized accounts opened by those that couldn’t take the pressure. I think something similar is happening, Miller had given them a very high arrest quota, and you can see how this could lead to them arresting whoever they can
Off topic but the fact that anyone still banks there, and that they’re even still allowed to operate, is just crazy to me.
also apparently ICe contracts means you have to stay in for a few years or you have to payback the bonuses, or loans, so its a way to ensure some of them will stay on and not leave right away, which would increase the number of faux arrests.
Duh. Why else was their budget increased by multiples?
