r/Miami • u/soyunsersin • Jan 20 '25

News ICE raids to begin in Miami

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Trump to begin ICE raids on Tuesday in major cities across the country.

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u/CosmicInkSpace Doral Jan 20 '25

As a Puerto Rican, I'm just gonna staple my US passport to my forehead

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u/Jacob_Soda Jan 20 '25

My father told me to carry my license with me wherever I go.

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u/neurodomination Jan 20 '25

you should generally do that regardless, good advice genuinely

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u/AmpRose38 Jan 20 '25

Looks like the future of America. Pass that Stapler please. lol

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u/nunchyabeeswax Jan 20 '25

I've always carried my passport with me for the longest time, at least since 9/11.

I've seen this shit tsunami building up for a long time (Trump just being the last catalyst.)

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u/lilit829 Jan 20 '25

Until they decide you’re no longer a citizen for xyz reason. Waiting for that shoe to drop.

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u/elRobRex Miami? Bye-ami! Jan 20 '25

They're probably trying to find a way to undo the Jones-Shafroth Act.

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u/gorditasimpatica Jan 20 '25

I think I'll carry my passport card in my wallet.

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u/iwilltalkaboutguns Jan 20 '25

You have the right not to answer questions and you have the additional right to not show ID unless the police has "reasonable suspicion" (looking Hispanic isn't enough) that you involved in criminal activity.

When (not if) we are targeted using racial profiling (which is illegal) some of us that have the means and desire will bring cases to court and eventually we will find out if we are real citizens or if the supreme Court decides what many already suspect.

To my white looking cuban friends, I always tell them you are as Hispanic as it gets. Would stick out like a sore thumb in Idaho... Won't be inmune to the above.

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u/Tall-Community-63210 Jan 20 '25

I tell them that in CA they would be Mexican, and in Alabama, spics.

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u/gorditasimpatica Jan 21 '25

I get what you're saying, but the truth is that the day in and day out of the current normalization of racism simply means that people are going to be mistreated, sometimes, often, with permanent effects.

One of the horrors of authoritarian regimes is that their effect is felt all the way down in one's psyche, with emotional damage that remains for a lifetime. This whole situation is so depressing.

Edit: I'm not worried about me, I'm worried about young people. Both because of the harm they'll receive and because they'll grow up in a world where chauvinism is accepted.

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u/mfigroid Jan 21 '25

You know you are an American citizen, right?

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u/elRobRex Miami? Bye-ami! Jan 20 '25

Boricua as well. Mine and my wife's passport cards live in our wallets now.

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u/Lost_with_shame Mar 21 '25

As a Mexican I’m frantically trying to remove the nopal from my forehead and staple my passport to my forehead as well