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Originally Posted by Hank_Heartland
Hey Kane, I hate to break this news to you but even in Portland, OR as a US citizen you are required by law to carry ID no matter where you go. You can't drive a car, cash a check, rent a car, buy a drink, get a job, go to school, get married, use your credit card or anything else without ID. As a citizen you are REQUIRED to carry ID at all times and you SHOULD have ID on you at all times. Act a fool in public, get sick and fallout, get hit by a car, get stopped by a cop and you are gonna get asked for it!!! So if citizens who are born here get asked for ID, why shouldn't citizens who were naturalized not be asked for papers??? You are NOT making sense!!!
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While you are correct that is common sense and practical that you should carry ID (as you say you need it for a lot of different reasons) it is not a crime to not have it. If I decide to go for a walk around my neighborhood I am not required to have ID on me. If I am a passenger in a car I am not required to have ID on me. Like you say it is something I should do even if for my own safety, but it is not REQUIRED of me unless I am doing something that requires ID like driving a car or cashing a check.
That said, this is not the main reason I am worried about the required papers law. To me it is a slippery slope. I can see it starting out where only legal immigrants need to have the green card/documents with them. But then in an effort to not profile they might decide to change the law so that anyone and everyone has to carry this information with them. This probably can be covered with a drivers license, but maybe not. If that isn't good enough to stop potential lawsuits they could ramp it up a little further. Maybe they make it so that at toll booths you also have to show your papers or they detain you. Things like this happening are not all that unrealistic to me.
I am for the law in Arizona. I think we need to give our police the power to detain illegals and help get them removed from the country. I just don't want to have to sacrifice my personal freedoms to do so. I know how our government works. They never take just an inch. If it is available they will take a mile and I don't want to see that happen.