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 would be more effective if everyone just affixed a symbol to their sleeve.
Maybe that symbol can be easily recognizable like a star or something. We can even make it bright yellow or gold so it’s visible from a distance.
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.
“Is this meant to be your shield, my lord? A things that fits in your wallet like a credit card?”
Alternate title:
Give the government $30 to stop violating your civil liberties
Lol, my mom had to pay like somewhere between ¥10,000 to ¥30,000 (Reminbi) in “fines” just so the PRC governenment even legally recognize my existence, because one child policy violation.
Give the government $30 to maybe stop violating your civil liberties
I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA - Randy Marsh
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.
Holy shit that’s so fucking cheap I paid like 200 aud for my Australian passport
That’s because it’s a passport card. Cards are only useful for crossing into Canada or Mexico, or for some carribian islands.
More importantly, it’s not valid to use for entry via airplane anywhere, even if it’s one of the above. So basically most useful for people that commute between regularly or are going on cruises. Or in this case as proof of citizenship.
Full passports are $130 USD. I renewed both in November.
Ahh righto, I assume you need a full passport for a card?
You can apply for a card without getting the book, or you can also apply for the book without getting the card. There’s a combo deal where you can get both for slightly cheaper than if you get them individually.
If you already have a card, applying for a book counts as a “renewal” rather than a new application.
Not at all. And it’s a little cheaper than my state ID (which is not a driver’s license, just an ID) and lasts considerably longer (10 years like a normal passport instead of 2 for the state ID).
Its great value, if you don’t already need a license and don’t plan on doing any air travel.
Oh nice
When was that? My partner paid something like $400 or more last year.
Honestly you might be right on it being $400. I remember it being way more than what I thought would be reasonable and in the hundreds; not the specific number. I filled mine online in VIC with the passport authority late last year. Picked it up and did all the in person paperwork at my local post office. Bloody rip off aye!
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.
Deadset. Which moron actually thinks mexican-looking peoples with actual passports are being approached on the streets and let go??
Source on this please!
I’m 100% not showing my papers.
Yeah fuck this.
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.
If you have to prove you have rights then no one has rights.
Apparently ICE doesn’t have to look at it.
What a time to be alive.
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.
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
