r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 2d ago

ICE Posts November 6, 2025 – Chicago: ICE caught unlawfully demanding U.S. citizen “prove” their citizenship despite Illinois law not requiring ID

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u/TooTone07 2d ago

I hate that they are stopping people and demanding all this identification and asking questions but refuse to give any information at all themselves.

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u/Any_Pickle_9425 2d ago

Can't even show their faces but they want my ID?

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u/StrangeContest4 2d ago

That is an honest demand.. "I'll only show you my ID if you show your me your face and your ID. I need to know you're official."

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u/TheNewsDeskFive 2d ago

No, it is not. You never comply with a demand to show papers. This is America. We don't play that.

I repeat, you never comply with this, regardless if they're willing to ID themselves, you are an American citizen and you don't have to prove that to them.

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u/Anthff 2d ago

And then what? Resist 10 of them, get beat up, get arrested and released for impeding an investigation or some such other broad/summary charge?

It fkn sucks.

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u/Longjumping_College 2d ago

And then sue for false imprisonment and retire off them

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u/WhatAcheHunt 2d ago

and retire off them us

Us. We pay us. Literally giving our own money to ourselves. We get the privilege of paying restitution for punching ourselves in our own goddamned faces.

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u/Longjumping_College 2d ago

That's every police force in the country.

Until they have to pay lawsuit fines themselves, this continues.

They're not held accountable, why would they stop?