For fellow Americans living in cities where ICE is active, many people, especially those of Hispanic descent, are already carrying around passports on their persons at all times because they’re rightfully afraid of being forcibly disappeared or deported to some random South American country.
A passport card can be obtained for $30 from the Department of State. It is considered exactly equivalent to a passport within the US, but it’s the size of a credit card. It is a valid travel document for land and sea travel within North America and the Caribbean. It also counts as a Real ID. The card is good for ten years.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html
Do not do this if you are transgender or have an X gender marker. They will cancel your passport and tell you to apply for a new one with your sex assigned at birth.
“This isn’t real” -ICEcuck
I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA - Randy Marsh
It won’t stop them. Immigration and customs already had a large amount of unchecked power prior to this administration, but under this administration there isn’t anything they care about. They’ve been murdering people in cold blood across multiple blue states for a while now.
Besides that, if people start panicking and trying this then the necessary venues that people have to go to for their first passport(you have to show up in person for your first passport) could become ICE targets or places they stalk. It’s not exactly uncommon knowledge that conservatives tend to not bother getting passports either.
Alternate title:
Give the government $30 to stop violating your civil liberties
You think ICE cares? You think ICE even understands that?
I have been stopped by ICE and was let go after showing my passport card.
It’s not a guarantee, but it doesn’t hurt.
Work will set you free.
I’m 100% not showing my papers.
I have papers, they’re holstered and chambered. there’s about 17 pages of papers too.
Having a passport card will definitely make it easier for the deportation official to release you after assault you, put you in handcuffs and take you to the station for speaking Spanish in a Mexican restaurant.
Do not do this if you are transgender or have an X gender marker.
Warnins should probably be bigger and up front, but that’s just me
They can still just detain you because they can steal it or say there’s no way to verify your passport or ID isn’t fraudulent without further investigation so how about you spend a few days or weeks in jail while we sort it out 😉
But yes it is still a good idea and won’t hurt
Apparently ICE doesn’t have to look at it.
Ah, just like Trump wanted.
What a time to be alive.
YSK if ICE thinks you’re too brown, they’ll just say yours is fake and deport you anyway. It’s already happened to US citizens.
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If you have to prove you have rights then no one has rights.
A REAL ID is also valid proof of citizenship. ICE clearly does not care.
You’re incorrect on that https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2026/01/05/real-id-travel-immigration-status/88032182007/
All this tells you is that ICE indeed does not care.
REAL IDs are not proof of citizenship. They’re proof that you had legal status at the time of their issue.
Would be a useful tip in a world where ICE follows the law.
