• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        Everyone who wants a job, house, bank account, doctor, etc. etc. needs at least an ID card.

        It’s not possible to function in modern society without identification.

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          5 days ago

          I can’t tell if you’re being deliberately obtuse or you really just can’t see beyond your own lived experience. Either way, your worldview is problematic, and you’re standing on the side of fascists.

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            5 days ago

            It’s super simple:

            If you want a job, you have to have ID.

            If you want social services, you also have to have ID.

            If you bail and are living in the woods like a wildman, good for you, but you aren’t voting, and the number of people doing that is not significant.

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              5 days ago

              You don’t need an ID for a job. You just need a social security number. Same for social services. And if you want to bail on society and live in the woods, you still have the right to vote. Thinking it’s OK to make it harder to vote just because you don’t respect the people who will have a harder time is about as anti-american as it gets.

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                5 days ago

                Yes, yes, you do.

                It’s called an I-9 form.

                https://www.uscis.gov/i-9

                “On the form, an employee must attest to their employment authorization. The employee must also present their employer with acceptable documents as evidence of identity and employment authorization. The employer must examine these documents to determine whether they reasonably appear to be genuine and relate to the employee, then record the document information on the employee’s Form I-9.”

                You either need 1 item from list A or 1 item from list B and one from C.

                LIST A
                Documents that Establish Both Identity and Employment Authorization

                1. U.S. Passport or U.S. Passport Card

                2. Permanent Resident Card or Alien Registration Receipt Card (Form I-551)

                3. Foreign passport that contains a temporary I-551 stamp or temporary I-551 printed notation on a machine- readable immigrant visa

                4. Employment Authorization Document that contains a photograph (Form I-766)

                5. For an individual temporarily authorized to work for a specific employer because of his or her status or parole: a. Foreign passport; and b. Form I-94 or Form I-94A that has the following: (1) The same name as the passport; and (2) An endorsement of the individual’s status or parole as long as that period of endorsement has not yet expired and the proposed employment is not in conflict with any restrictions or limitations identified on the form.

                6. Passport from the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) or the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) with Form I-94 or Form I-94A indicating nonimmigrant admission under the Compact of Free Association Between the United States and the FSM or RMI

                OR - 1 from B and one from C:

                LIST B
                Documents that Establish Identity

                1. Driver’s license or ID card issued by a State or outlying possession of the United States provided it contains a photograph or information such as name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color, and address

                2. ID card issued by federal, state or local government agencies or entities, provided it contains a photograph or information such as name, date of birth, gender, height, eye color, and address

                3. School ID card with a photograph

                4. Voter’s registration card

                5. U.S. Military card or draft record

                6. Military dependent’s ID card

                7. U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Card

                8. Native American tribal document

                9. Driver’s license issued by a Canadian government authority

                For persons under age 18 who are unable to present a document listed above:

                1. School record or report card

                2. Clinic, doctor, or hospital record

                3. Day-care or nursery school record Acceptable Receipts

                LIST C
                Documents that Establish Employment
                Authorization

                1. A Social Security Account Number card, unless the card includes one of the following restrictions:
                  (1) NOT VALID FOR EMPLOYMENT
                  (2) VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH INS AUTHORIZATION
                  (3) VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION

                2. Certification of report of birth issued by the Department of State (Forms DS-1350, FS-545, FS-240)

                3. Original or certified copy of birth certificate issued by a State, county, municipal authority, or territory of the United States bearing an official seal

                4. Native American tribal document

                5. U.S. Citizen ID Card (Form I-197)

                6. Identification Card for Use of Resident Citizen in the United States (Form I-179)

                7. Employment authorization document issued by the Department of Homeland Security

                A social security card only shows you’re authorized to work in the United States, it’s not proof of identity.

                In fact, back in the day, it used to say directly on it “Not for Identification.”

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                    4 days ago

                    This bit?

                    “The employee must also present their employer with acceptable documents as evidence of identity”

                    I’ve been responsible for PROCESSING I-9 forms, not just filling them out. Yes, you do in fact need ID to get a job.

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            5 days ago

            In order to have a life that looks like mine you need ID. I don’t see how people without ID do it. I don’t they’re being deliberately obtuse. Life is hard enough and most of us have a hard time understanding how different other people’s lives can be.

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              5 days ago

              Right, but that’s exactly my point. It’s important to understand that everyone has a right to vote, and not just the people who have a life that looks like yours. And if you’re willing to take rights away from people who aren’t like you, then you’re the oppressor.