Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

Re:Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater by mothballed on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @07:38AM (#45101701)

That might be OK wherever you are from. Our forefathers fought a war in part to stop warrantless checks of random people on the street for their papers. It goes against the very document that even authorizes our government in the first place.

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Re:Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater by gruez on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @01:07PM (#45105918)

> Our forefathers fought a war in part to stop warrantless checks of random people on the street for their papers.

Source?

Also, the supreme court has ruled that asking for ID at stops is constitutional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_Distr...

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Re:Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater by mothballed on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @01:45PM (#45106523)

There has to be articulable individualized suspicion of a specific crime to stop someone and ID them, you can randomly do it to people on the street even if they look brown or something.

>asking for ID

The same supreme court ruling you named stated the reason why they could even demand ID was because there was no expectation it would implicate them in a crime. Demanding immigration papers in an immigration investigation would reasonably be asking someone to incriminate themselves if not having them is an element of that crime (for the same reason, if a minor is stopped for say having booze, generally they are not required to give DOB even if the stop-and-ID statute requires it).

The bit you are interested in googling is "general warrants" as one of the things colonists were quite angry about.

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