ACLU Issues Texas 'Travel Advisory' - Reads like ACLU hired Salon to write this piece.

https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-issues-texas-travel-advisory

“The ACLU’s goal is to protect all Texans and all people traveling through Texas — regardless of their immigration status — from illegal harassment by law enforcement,”

Can you even be called American Civil Liberties Union anymore when you admit you're going to protect people who aren't even US citizens and call the enforcement of Federal law illegal?

“We plan to fight this racist and wrongheaded law in the courts and in the streets. Until we defeat it, everyone traveling in or to Texas needs to be aware of what’s in store for them,” said Terri Burke, executive director of the ACLU of Texas. “The Lone Star State will become a ‘show me your papers’ state, where every interaction with law enforcement can become a citizenship interrogation and potentially an illegal arrest.”

This sounds like something a BLM, La Raza or ANTIFA supporter would say.

Unsurprisingly she's wrote for Huff Post before: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/terri-burke

Between 2008 and 2012, ICE requested local law enforcement to hold 834 U.S. citizens, some of whom subsequently spent days in jail as a result. Under SB4, the state of Texas is placing the rights of its residents, including U.S. citizens, in extreme jeopardy.

DAYS in jail, the horror!

tl;dr ACLU, like many supposed watch-dog groups has been infiltrated by leftist regressives over the past decade and now are in full chimp out mode because a Republican is president and are trying everything in their power to claim everything they do is illegal and unconstitutional, even though they don't believe in the very documents they claim to defend.

 

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You are required to identify yourself, at least by name.

I think that might vary from state to state. From what I remember here in Oregon you are not obligated to give any sort of identification, like your name, but that police can hold you until they figure out who you are. Though the police trying to detain you for no reason other than you "look like someone of interest" doesn't happen too often for obvious reasons.

 

[AnOminous]

I think that might vary from state to state. From what I remember here in Oregon you are not obligated to give any sort of identification, like your name, but that police can hold you until they figure out who you are. Though the police trying to detain you for no reason other than you "look like someone of interest" doesn't happen too often for obvious reasons.

I should have phrased that somewhat more accurately. It's constitutionally permissible under the U.S. Constitution for the police to require you to identify yourself. Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada, 542 U.S. 177 (2004).

States can choose not to allow their police to do this, but if they have a stop and identify statute, state police are allowed to do that. Often, the federal "border zone" patrols involve traffic, a situation where law enforcement can generally determine whether you are licensed to operate a vehicle, as not having identification showing this or failing to produce it is, itself, illegal.

Similarly, non-citizens are generally required to have some identifying information that shows they are in the country legally, while citizens aren't. Where stop and "papers please" can run afoul of the Constitution is where it's impacting citizens, and disproportionately impacting citizens because of their perceived national origin.

This also isn't a joke. It has actually happened. The government recently had to pay out $175,000 after illegally deporting a mentally ill U.S. citizen who was unable to understand the proceedings or identify himself. It is likely to happen even more often with an extremely aggressive deportation policy crafted by an ignorant xenophobe who has shown little regard for legality or due process.