ICE Deems US Citizen's Passport 'Not Real', But Foreign Policy Claims Are?
When Newsweek bravely reports that ICE agents casually dismiss a legitimate U.S. passport as 'not real' (a public record document, no less), one has to wonder about the standards of reality enforcement. This apparent lack of faith in the very documents proving citizenship seems to be a feature, not a bug, of an agency that has repeatedly faced scrutiny for its tactics. Meanwhile, the same
government asks us to accept at face value complex geostrategic narratives for military aid packages and interventions, often conveniently omitting historical context or the staggering dollar amounts involved. We're expected to believe in the reality of 'deterrence' and 'stability' as reasons for blank checks to foreign powers—like the $14.5 billion aid package to Israel included in the recent
supplemental bill voted on by politicians who collectively took millions from pro-Israel lobbying groups like AIPAC (OpenSecrets.org data confirms this pattern year after year)—while an actual US passport gets called a fake. Perhaps the real question isn't whether the passport is real, but whose reality ICE is operating in, and why some realities are more convenient than others.