We are becoming a “papers, please” country, and no one should want that.
@georgetakei Rules for thee, not for me.
@georgetakei Always keep your papers on your person, and be sure to check in with your local ICE office to obtain permissions before traveling.
“This says your address is in New York. What are you doing in Chicago?”
@georgetakei Or, you know, go off-grid and book it when the pigs take an interest.
@georgetakei Be sure to check the videogame "Papers Please". Fun times 👀
@georgetakei If the votes can't solve things, we're in for a repeat of history. Things are already shaping that way, but instead of a small country doing wrong, It'll be a host of self righteous and mislead individuals in this rather sizeable country that used to stand for liberty and justice for all - usually how it goes I guess, same bad acting, new crop of bad actors.... 🤷
@georgetakei The US is changing so quickly, The Handmaid's Tale will soon be a documentary rather than fiction. Scary.
@ZS @georgetakei
@briankrebs
No, not quickly. It started years ago.
It's the "simple" pattern - like Kanzler #Merz is concerned about the "Stadtbild" when asked about immigrants.
It's very sad.
It's not the America I once knew
and admired...
Hopefully you'll find the way back.
Before I get old.
Hopefully we do too.
@ZS @[email protected] its time to copy 2025 Nepal or 1789 France.
@georgetakei Like Russia. Had to show my passport to the Russian cops a couple of times. "Do I look like a Chechen?"

@georgetakei https://diyatvusa.com/new-u-s-rule-requires-immigrants-to-carry-legal-status-id-at-all-times/

SCROTUS also found that ICE is free to profile and detain you if you look like the sort that might be an immigrant, such as be Hispanic and at a construction site. So really, it's only if you are white and conservative that you have the right to walk around without ID anymore.

New U.S. rule requires immigrants to carry legal status ID at all times

WASHINGTON (Diya TV) — Immigrants living in the United States — including H-1B visa holders, students, green card holders, and undocumented...

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@georgetakei Additionally, "Довро пожаловать в Америку!" 
@georgetakei Wait - is he even required to have papers on him?

@georgetakei

How do they have jurisdiction to enforce the fine?

@SpaceLifeForm

If ICE levied the fine, they don't. Off to court he goes - hopefully someone will pro-bono the case for him.

@PeterLG

Exactly. Now imagine they hand out thousands of tickets, wasting time and money for thousands.

I would just throw it away.

@SpaceLifeForm @georgetakei if Jr doesn't pay the fine they'll probably just come back and deport him. Legal residency be damned.
@georgetakei For MAGA fair is a woke term meaning they can't unleash violence
@georgetakei
Im not so sure about the "please" part.
It'll become "HALT, AUSWEIS!" soon.
@georgetakei somehow I read that as “rock paper scissors country”
@georgetakei Makes me think of this scene from Schindler's List:
@georgetakei Anyone who says I voted for this is ether a Russian troll,a member of ICE, a racist, a buffoon or several of these.
@georgetakei ya,,still ongoing⛓️🤡💩🔓?,,,,💙🌏🖐🐾🐾🪶🌬🌊
@georgetakei Really I don't see where ICE "acquired jurisdiction" over this man at all

@RevPudDudley

If ICE levied the fine, they it's not enforceable; it's absolutely contestable. Off to court he goes - hopefully someone will pro-bono the case for him.

@georgetakei