India, Oct. 16 -- A long-dormant federal rule that could impact Green Card holders is being brought back in the US. Last week, Rueben Antonio Cruz, a lawful and permanent resident of Chicago, was slapped with a $130 fine by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for not failing to present his identification.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council noted on X that this was the first case he was seeing where a green card holder had been 'criminally charged for failure to carry papers.'

Typically, a Green Card holder must carry the necessary immigration documents. The rule ICE is imposing, draws from the 1940-enacted Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), Section 264. It says that a green card or alien registration...