In his latest move to clamp down on illegal immigration and immigration more broadly, President Trump has filed a presidential action invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a seldom-used law that gives the president authority to detain or deport nationals of an enemy nation during wartime. It’s only the fourth time in American history a president has used the act — and the first since World War II.
Guess I have to start carrying my passport and a photocopy of birth certificate in my EDC bag now.
Why? What is any of that going to do? Unless your passport is packing and willing to die for you. All those things can disappear just like Mahmoud Khalil.
Police will ask you, “do you have a passport?” You hand passport to them. Police respond with “I didn’t see a passport, guess you are disappearing now.” That’s literally how that interaction will play out. We are pass legal documents having any kind of meaning.