>Here's one law-abiding citizen who would object to being stopped and asked to show proof of citizenship.
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>Well, Andy is a law-abiding permanent resident of this country who is required, by law, to have his green card with him at all times and to display it to law enforcement when asked.
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>He does not have a problem with this precisely because he is a law-abiding person <s>.

As a resident alien, he has agreed to those provisions.

One of the things that supposedly makes the US (and the other "first world" countries) different from the old "second world" countries is that in the first world, you don't have to carry your "papers."

Tamar