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I like to ask people who want to be tough on immigration, if you were arrested right now and accused of not being a citizen could you prove that you are?
Address, Drivers License, SSN? Non citizens can have all of those. A passport should work if you have one, but if you don't have it on you, you might be detained for a long time before you can get it and prove your citizenship.
Now, under the EO even having your birth certificate won't cut it. You'd need to prove one of your parents was a citizen. So what? We're all going to walk around with a family tree of birth certificates?
Exactly this. And we all know who will have to "prove" their citizenship. It won't be the white people, just in case someone needs to hear it.
I have a certificate of naturalization, so it's probably easier for me to prove my citizenship than it is for someone born in the USA (to citizen parents).
They might not care, depending on your skin color.
I do too, but I don't carry it on me. Been wanting to get a passport, but I don't like the idea of being without it for the time the process takes. Did you know that it is the only original copy, and you cannot get another one issued?
The ol reliable
Nah it'll get changed to "if three or four grandparents are non-citizens".
And people still won't see parallels.
I'm hiring Chaucer to forge some patents of nobility.
... And the protector of noble virginity... kryptoniannnnnncoooooodemonkey!
Those are quite literally walking papers/freedom papers which often came with a tattoo or brand.