The Absurd GOP

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Kavanaugh’s depiction of an immigration check shows “a fundamental misunderstanding about verification of citizenship,” John Sandweg, an attorney who served as the top official at ICE during part of Barack Obama’s first term, told me.

“There is no national database or birth registry,” Sandweg said. “There is no place for ICE to quickly check and do facial recognition. An officer’s not going to just take someone’s word for it if they have reasons to believe they’re in the country unlawfully.”

It can take days or weeks for ICE or someone’s attorney to track down their birth records, Sandweg added. “The idea that it’s going to be done in a Home Depot parking lot is ludicrous.”

How Do You Prove Your Citizenship?

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