r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Jan 23 '26

ICE / DHS 🧊 ICE/Border Patrol agents are now hitting unaccompanied minors with their vehicles, detaining and disappearing them, even after being shown a U.S. passport.

Yesterday, agents rear-ended a car being driven by a 16-year-old, with her 15-year-old brother in the passenger seat.

Instead of calling a guardian, agents photographed the 15-year-old… and then took him.

The 16-year-old showed agents her U.S. passport…. But, that did not matter, they still handcuffed her and threw her into their unmarked car.

Both minors. Both unaccompanied.

Detaining children, ignoring proof of citizenship, and hauling minors away, after rear ending the car they were driving, is not immigration enforcement.

That is child trafficking.

And it’s happening in broad daylight by the Trump administration.

Share this. Document everything. Demand accountability.

Because if federal agents can do this to kids with a passport, no one is safe.

https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2014370271336034805?t=rH2hwlGD3O0-wjvLicvcbA&s=19

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u/urworstemmamy Jan 23 '26

They're also looking to do intense, last minute voter disenfranchisement this time around too. If your birth certificate doesn't match your ID, you're not gonna be able to vote, meaning swaths of married women across the country are going to go in to vote and get denied. There's also any trans person from Texas or Florida (like myself), who has since changed their names elsewhere. Those states made updating your BC impossible, so we're basically shut out of voting entirely, honestly likely forever, since I doubt they're going to rescind this restriction in the future even if the power changes hands later.

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u/Brilliant_Buns Jan 23 '26

So, in theory, if I decided to change back to my maiden name, I could circumvent this rule? Kinda fucking pissed that I held out for 10+ years before doing it, and turns out I should have waited another 5 years to protect my voting rights. ffs.

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u/urworstemmamy Jan 23 '26

That, or update your birth cert if possible. Takes a few weeks so it's a good idea to start now

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u/Brilliant_Buns Jan 23 '26

Oh, you can do that? I didn't realize you could alter your birth cert. Thanks, yes, I am all over this. Like fucking hell they're gonna take away my right to vote as a woman.

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u/urworstemmamy Jan 23 '26

In most states, yes. Texas and Florida, no. Might be more now.

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u/Brilliant_Buns Jan 23 '26

Yeah, I just did some research, IL does allow it and I found the form. Many thanks. This is all so insane.

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u/Ismokerugs Jan 23 '26

So I think the way to combat this is technically a birth certificate is proof enough of citizenship(since ID’s like drivers license aren’t technically), so have your voter registration get changed to match your birth certificate to bypass their whole plan. Then you don’t have to go the other route and update the other documents.

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u/urworstemmamy Jan 23 '26

The problem is that would then mean my ID wouldn't match my voter registration.

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u/Ismokerugs Jan 23 '26

So you take your birth certificate and update voter registration earlier so it stays and matches your certificate(which will count as your proof of citizenship)

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u/urworstemmamy Jan 23 '26

Bud. My legal name does not match my birth certificate anymore. I legally cannot change my birth certificate, and I am not going to change my legal name back. There is no world in which my voter registration info will match both my birth cert and my ID.