What if the ICE or Border Patrol agent doesn’t believe you? Or doesn’t care? Or isn’t about to allow you to call home, to find your passport (if you have one) or your birth certificate (if you know where it is)? Just because he doesn’t have to?
That is the situation the president of the United States was longing for the other day when he launched another of his inane tweets. The one, tossed off on his way to play golf, that completely ignores the constitutional right of due process that belongs — by the plan language of the U.