chiliedogg

I want that too, but I'll gladly accept a toilet aneurysm today.

I might be very okay with that last part, conditional on timing.

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If you have the card there's no stamping.

That card doesn't have to be stamped at all. But it only works on land and sea crossing within North America. So unless you're on a cruise or driving to Mexico or Canada, you still need the book with the stamps.

Yeah - I used to carry one. I'm white as a ghost, but I used to drive to Mexico often enough it was worth not having to replace my passport book because it was getting stamped too often.

My go-to question when people defend this shit is to ask them to prove to me they're a citizen on the spot.

Not many people even have a passport, much less carry one at all times.

I work in government and Open Records requests are regular things, and I have to redact a bunch of stuff to protect people's privacy.

You have to be more careful than many people expect think with the redaction tool. Sometimes it's text being redacted. Sometimes it's a graphic. Sometimes it's both on top of each other.

That's why my final step in redacting documents for Open Records (I do a LOT of it) is to flatten the PDF.

But the real bitch is protected docs. Some docs keep the redaction tool from working (e.g. docs with digital signatures). Sometimes I actually have to print a doc out and re-scan it to get the redactions to stick.

They tell you to only consider the law as written, but that doesn't make nullification illegal or improper. They just don't like it.

Their duty as civil servants is to uphold the law as written. Challenging laws as unjust is the duty of the citizenry.

It's also worth noting that being in the country illegally is not actually a crime in the US. It's a civil issue.

The criminal system seeks pnlunishment for a crime against society. The civil system seeks relief from famages, and can take many more forms.

If someone is convicted of a crime and pays a fine or serves their prison sentence, they've paid their debt to society and the matter is closed.

If you want to compel someone to do something or cease doing something, you need the civil system. For instance, if someone builds a fence over your property line, you need a civil ruling to force them to remove it.

The same thing goes for the government. Illegal immigration is a civil issue because it's the only way for the ruling to compel the person to leave.

In a criminal case, a judge can only overturn a guilty verdict.