I see this all the time. Unequal enforcement. My mother wanted to take a cruise and she needed a passport. She didn't have her original birth certificate or original social security card. Back in the 1940s it was common to get a delayed birth certificate when you turned adult at 18, if you lived in the backwoods in Missouri. The State Department gave her the runaround trying to get a passport for FIVE YEARS. She ended up going to our Senator. He leaned on the State Department and shit got done within days. I see people going to get drivers' licenses with improper documentation all the time. You need (a) (b) and (c), no exceptions. "Oh, you don't have (a) (b) and (c)? But you have an expired library card? No problem!" But they make white guys actually jump through all the hoops.