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As i began to read this post, I was taken back to our move from San Diego to North Carolina in 2010. That route took us through Arizona, which at the time was stopping "suspicious" looking folx and requiring them to prove citizenship. We managed to set a route that mostly bypassed the state, except for a tiny bit in the Northwest that had to cross over the Arizona border. We spent a lot of energy thinking about what could go wrong on that brief bit of desert road. We ended up hiding our passports deep in our bags, but making copies of every kind of ID that might establish our status as citizens. That trip, my first to cross the US was filled with anxiety, but we did take the opportunity to listen to Zinn's "The Peoples History of the United States" while driving through so much of the southern US.

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