You want a license, bank account, buy a house, car, or even use a credit card you need an ID. To enroll in college, rent an apartment, get a job, or set up a utilities account you need an ID.
A driver's license is a choice. A bank account is a choice. Credit card, college. These are choices.
Now, in the US you need to present ID to buy a house, or a car, rent an apartment? Set up a utilities account? Is that true? Because then you already live in a 'paper's please' state (Ugh, I hate terms like that). It seems you've given up quite a lot of freedom in the US. As an aside, I'm curious, what is all this restriction based on personal identity supposed to be gaining you?
Back to the topic at hand, though: If you needed an ID to get a job, or rent an apartment, how are illegal aliens getting jobs and finding lodging? There aren't millions of illegals in the streets of California. I mean, I'm sure there's plenty, but certainly not most or even many of them.
Going back to my choices thing: you can exist quite well without constantly having to carry around proof that you are allowed to live where you live. At least I think you can. Unless you're trying to impress upon me that the US is not the bastion of freedom your government makes it out to be. I don't live in the US so I can only compare it to my experiences in Canada, and I don't fear not having my ID on me, except when I'm driving or transporting my rifles.
See, that's the thing. When I drive, if I do something to get a cop's suspicion, I have to prove that I have been trained to properly operate a motor vehicle. When I use my rifle and I do something to get a cop's suspicion, I have to prove that I have had training in order to properly operate a firearm. Both of these things are choices and by no means are required to live a happy life. Now you're telling me that it's okay that if you ever get a cop's suspicion, you have to prove that you have been granted permission to be on US soil, even if you've lived your whole life in one place? To me that idea is beyond the pale.
Ultimately, I've left my house once in the last 10 years without my keys, locking me out. I know plenty of people that have done it far more often. Your keys are very important, they allow you access to your home and without them you might find yourself with few options. If I, or any of these people I mention who occasionally forget things, visits Arizona for a holiday and leaves their passport behind in their hotel, just once, and does anything to draw a cop's attention (For example, looking too Hispanic) they'll end up arrested and imprisoned. I'm sure they'll be released eventually. You know. Once the cops are done treating them like a filthy illegal. But why take that chance?
Here's the rub. People can go to lots of places around the world where this scenario doesn't end up with arrest and detainment. Lots of places that are free. Why bother going to Arizona?
Honestly, I hope you all get the things that you want. I really do. But understand that most people don't want these things and the kind of sneering you have for these people shows just how important freedom really is to the average American.
This woman must be freaking kidding herself because she's not kidding me. Americans freedoms are, and should be different from the freedoms of an alien intruder just the same as it is for us abroad.
