If I Was Still Teaching Today, I Would Be Telling My Students & Their Families To Always Carry Proof Of Citizenship

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This tweet is the kind of advice teachers should be offering their students today:

In light of today’s SCOTUS decision, every person of color with an accent in the US should probably carry proof of citizenship with them at all times – while working and everywhere they go. If you don’t want to be in a detention facility awaiting a friend or relative to bring it.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 8, 2025

This was an awful decision by the Supreme Court, which you can read about here at NBC News,
Supreme Court lifts limits on roving immigration patrols in Los Angeles area.

And here are some posts from NY Times columnist Jamelle Bouie offering additional context:

no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) September 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM

brett kavanaugh’s pretty little mind can’t be bothered to imagine the mother desperate to calm her sobbing child as ICE agents threaten to whisk her away to a secret jail for looking “illegal”

— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) September 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM

it’s great too that when district courts follow the law as written, one of the chuds on the Supreme Court pops up to scold them for not treating trump like a very special boy

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) September 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) September 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM