> mostly american concept True. It is an American experience. Different admins have harassed different Americans at different points in time. Jews, Blacks, Ch

> mostly american concept True. It is an American experience. Different admins have harassed different Americans at different points in time. Jews, Blacks, Chinese, Indians (India) and so on. Donald Trump showed us just how much evil US admin can get on matters of paperwork. Since he could not legally stop legal immigrants from working, he changed rules and created such a long backlog that it takes now 24 months to renew some work permits which use to take 15 days 4 years ago. Immigrants were deeply hurt. He also adopted several tactics which can be called "voter suppression". He used ridiculous logic such as "extreme vetting" to deny visa approvals for 4 year old children of an already approved immigrant. Trump admin harassed a lot of Hispanics born in border towns of USA, refusing to use their birth certificates as evidence of citizenship. >it feels really weird to see people describing what a dystopian future American would become if it did that thing we do right now. USA is much much larger and far diverse than France. It also does not have the groups who hate each other as Americans have. I highly doubt if there are any French politicians who bear certain hatred for specific groups. I am not at all denying that centralized IDs are bad for everyone, but for Americans it is going to be pretty bad.