The difference is that in each of those other scenarios you mentioned, if you make the choice not to hand over your ID, there is no potential of being body slammed into the concrete face first and a knee on your neck as you're cuffed and taken away to an unknown detention center until you prove your innocence to get back home.

So yeah, maybe a little different?

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The irony is, we hand over our ID everyday to provide proof for a personal check, to deposit or withdraw at the bank, to use a credit card in a store, to confirm we are the patient in question at hospitals and clinics, to register for college classes or student financial aid, to take out loans and a whole lot more. So yes, it is giving up a right to the agent, but how different is it now in practice to giving up that right to everything else in modern society? I get the legal point, but in practice, we hand out or ID freely to everyone else.