Papers, please.

[Swede]

A post on facebook.

So here we are. 2025. And a federal judge is being grilled like a goddamn criminal while stepping off a passenger train in Havre, Montana, because two dudes in desert camo with “ICE” stitched on their chests decided to play “Show Me Your Papers”—on U.S. soil, with no probable cause, and no legal warrant. You know, just your casual, everyday paramilitary checkpoint at a train stop in America. Totally normal.
Larry Baer, an attorney and tribal court judge—mind you, a judge—goes to stretch his legs during a routine Amtrak stop and boom: he’s face-to-face with the soft boot of authoritarianism. No explanation. No legal justification. Just a demand for citizenship confirmation, verbal only if you look like him. Because, let’s be honest, we all know damn well if Baer had a deeper tan or a Spanish accent, they’d be rifling through his bags, pressing him against the train, and asking why his great-great-grandma didn’t speak English.
And these ICE goons weren’t subtle either—desert camo. Not police blues. Not federal polos. Freakin’ combat uniforms. Like they’re about to raid a cartel compound and not, you know, harass a bunch of elderly train passengers on their way through the Hi-Line.
And get this: ICE denies it was them. They pass the buck to Customs and Border Protection. CBP’s response? “We’re checking into it.” What the hell does that even mean? You’re the guys with the guns on the train! Don’t you know what your agents are doing? Or are you just hoping the public forgets by the time you finish your internal game of hot potato?

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[SheltieLover]

1. Kick

[Attilatheblond]

6. And another kick

These little moments in our nation are profoundly important. We need to notice them and address them.

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page for visibility

Very important

Rec. Rec. Rec

[woodsprite]

3. Our adult kids are traveling by plane and we're traveling by train this summer.

We all just had a talk last night cautioning discussing this incident, about the lady deplaning in Miami who was questioned, and about the 2 German girls in Hawaii. I'm thinking this will be our last family trip for awhile unless it's driving or camping. We all have Real IDs, but hubby nor I have never had a passport. We're fixing that though I expect it will take much longer now with all the personnel cuts they've made.

[ret5hd]

7. in any such incident with me...

i intend to use my white male priveledge to its full extent. “F off you nazi bastard. and use your jackboots to drink from”.

[Lonestarblue]

9. I recently renewed my passport, and it took about six weeks.

Getting a new one might take a bit longer. I think the estimate they give now is 6 to 11 weeks. Good idea to get passports.

[MLWR]

10. I renewed mine shortly before Christmas

and before Krasnov was sworn in and fired everyone and his brother. It took less than two weeks.

[fujiyamasan]

23. I would consider getting a passport card as well

It’s valid for travel between Mexico and Canada. It’s the size of a drivers license or credit card so easy to fit in a wallet. I keep mine at all times.

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[RJ-MacReady]

5. do not comply

Stand firm.

[Auggie]

8. And get dragged away to a detention center ... indefinitely?

[RJ-MacReady]

13. so what's your answer?

Comply with fascism? NO.

[Auggie]

17. I'll show my Real ID or passport

Habeas Corpus is a bit of a threatened right currently.

I’m not about to FAFO. They have force. I don’t.

[sop]

15. If they're rightwing vigilante goons, not ICE or any other agency, what detention center would you be dragged away to?

[Auggie]

18. Scary to think what it could be, right?

[sop]

20. Their local klavern maybe, or the headquarters of a rightwing militia group.

These are the same armed idiots who showed up at statehouses to protest mask mandates.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. I've feared for a long time of check points at all state borders.

They'll find their cause, like an attractive blonde girl who was taken across the country and killed.
Or they'll say it's to stop fentanyl trafficking, or something MS13 is doing. They're close now with court approved DUI checkpoints.

All they need is their 9/11.

[DENVERPOPS]

19. The LEO in the Denver Metro Area

have DUI checkpoints..............and they are laughable..........

They are 100% of the time, in the poorer, lower class areas. Never Exiting a Bronco game for instance, or streets/highways in the upper class neighborhoods.......

Same as ICE citizenship raids anywhere near a meat packing corporation, any building construction area, any agri-business, or better yet, placed at the entrance/exits of gated communities.......

[Iamscrewed]

12. Reality

Wake up and stop this shit.
1930s+ Germany.

[chowder66]

14. Here's an article on it that references the Facebook post

snip......

He said he has been riding the train for decades and he has never seen federal officers come on the train to ask if people are citizens.

He said a conductor on the train Sunday told him that in the conductor's 40 years, he has never seen anything like it.

Roberts said Baer's story is very concerning.

"It really is a very serious issue," she said. "I never thought that I would see what I have seen occur in our country today, and as a member of the judicial branch, I'm highly concerned with what I see."


https://www.havredailynews.com/story/2025/04/17/local/border-patrol-agents-question-amtrak-passengers-in-havre-about-citizenship/547792.html

[ShazamIam]

16. This is terrifying, and I wonder if that Deputy Chief of Staff, Steven Miller is the architect of this program in full

practice now. I don't think I am the only one wondering how many of us have been disappeared.

[Ping Tung]

21. The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. Albert Camus

[Ping Tung]

22. We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.
Isabel Allende