ICE, ICE baby (and CBP stuff too)

“Within 100 miles of the border, the coast, or an international airport” has been the rule for years. However, until last week, as a practical matter, the CBP checkpoints were just focused on the 100 miles of the land borders…mostly the Mexican border, but I have been stopped once in Vermont.

While armchair libertarians may have been aware of that being the rule, events of the past couple of weeks have brought it to the attention of many more people.

Actually, I keep my passport card in my wallet, as I prefer to use it when I need to show ID, rather than my driver’s license. (My passport card is redundant with my full passport and NEXUS card; probably a waste of money for me to even have it, but it’s not that expensive in the first place.)

But I’m weird.

For many/most American citizens/nationals and long-term residents, having a valid Real ID compliant license or a carry permit should, theoretically, be sufficient as neither may be issued to someone whose lawful presence hasn’t been verified (and, for non-citizens/nationals, their expiration dates cannot be later than the expiration of their visa).

Whether an ICE/CBP agent would remember that when trying to meet their snatch-and-grab quota is another question.

I changed my driver’s license over to real ID prior to the election, because i was afraid this would happen. :cry:

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I got my real id years ago bc you were going to need one to fly. Claim is that the multiple times rescheduled deadline will finally be this year.

Will you get arrested if you speak this language?

Until they delay the multiply delayed deadline again.

June Cleaver wouldn’t.

The others, however…

I have a passport, and a global entry card either of those will work for flying after real id is implemented. But i thought i might be more of a target in a traffic stop or something if my drivers license wasn’t “real id”.

Negative 11 days, AFAICT.

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Oh goody. We have the same level of freedom as China. How fabulous.

I think the original deadline was in 2008. I got my first Real ID in 2011. Had planned on simply using my passport to travel if the deadline had come into effect before I got one. Which of course didn’t happen.

But by 2020 all 50 states and DC were finally in compliance so I think there’s a decent chance that this deadline might actually be honored. That said, there is a proposal to delay it another two years (from May 2025 to May 2027).

In case anyone was wondering:

Through an extensive review of GlomarResponder’s X posts, publicly available documents, and other social media profiles and posts, the Texas Observer has identified the operator of GlomarResponder as James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, a 44-year-old who works as an assistant chief counsel for ICE in the Dallas area. Rodden represents the agency in immigration court hearings where judges decide whether an individual is removed from the country.

Since GlomarResponder was first created in 2012, the account has posted hateful, xenophobic, and pro-fascist content. “America is a White nation, founded by Whites. … Our country should favor us,” GlomarResponder wrote last month. “All blacks are foreign to my people, dumb fuck,” the account posted in September of last year. “Freedom of association hasn’t existed in this country since 1964 at the absolute latest,” GlomarResponder wrote four months prior, further clarifying the post was referring to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a reply to a comment. “I’m not a commie, I’m a fascist,” GlomarResponder posted a couple weeks later. “Fascists solve communist problems. Get your insults right, retard.”

In August, GlomarResponder posted: “‘Migrants’ are all criminals.” Two months later, GlomarResponder shared an image that reads: “It is our holy duty to guard against the foreign hordes.” Some GlomarResponder posts evoke anti-immigrant violence: “Nobody is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders,” the account posted in March 2024. “Yet. Give it a few more weeks at this level of invasion, and that will be the moderate position.” And in January: “My WWII vet grandfather didn’t get a chance to kill asians, so he volunteered for Korea. He’d be asking for a short term job with ICE kicking doors and swinging a baton.”

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Good Lord :woman_facepalming:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/just-following-hispanic-people-citizen-detained-by-ice-questions-vote-for-trump/3861172/

This guy has a green card.

That didn’t stop them from arresting him.

The rule of law is basically gone in the US.

Green cards can be revoked.

How a Green Card Can Be Revoked - Rebecca Black Immigration Law.

(I wouldn’t be surprised if the administration is stretching, if not overreaching, in interpreting the associated rules.)

Yes. But only by an immigration judge.

None of that here. It is being done by executive fiat.

The descent into a full on kakistocracy continues…

Yes, a court proceeding is required prior to the actual revocation of PR status.

However, the State Department has broad powers to detain any non-citizen, pending such a proceeding.