Lol, this isn’t going to go far. I’ve been stopped and carded countless times in Japan, even by vaunted authorities like the railroad police, and I don’t think it’s a negative thing.
You take out your Alien ID card, they scan it, and then let you go in a few minutes.
I didn’t like the drug police breaking into my apartment at 7AM because another American had sent himself weed to my apartment building though, but we had some nice conversations about baseball before they left.
“...and I don’t think it’s a negative thing.”
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I don’t think it would bother me either. Not unless it’s incessant and I am late trying to get somewhere. It should be comforting to law abiding citizens that you’re probably in a safer society because of it.
Who wouldn’t like it? Probably criminals.
Why do they have to feel persecuted? Even if they are not personally involved in criminal activity, it suggest to me that they are sympathetic to it. What they probably really want is something like what is happening in the US. People can come and go as they please, even from foreign countries without documentation, and not have to worry about having their activities scrutinized.