We're supposed to shrug this off. Just part of the cost of keeping our country safe, right?

An American Citizen Is Released From Immigration Custody After Nearly a Month

Francisco Erwin Galicia, 18, was born in Dallas and, according to his birth certificate, is an American citizen. 

But he was held in federal immigration custody for nearly four weeks after he was detained at a Border Patrol traffic checkpoint in South Texas.

Mr. Galicia showed the agents the proof of his birth in the United States when he was stopped at the checkpoint one night in June, when he was on his way to a college soccer tryout. But the agents, his lawyer said, told him they believed it was fake.

They took him into custody, taking him first to a Border Patrol facility in the border city of McAllen and then to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pearsall, Tex., southwest of San Antonio.

Late Tuesday afternoon, 26 days after he was first detained, Mr. Galicia was released after the news media, Democratic lawmakers and migrant advocacy groups put his case in the national spotlight.

And that's what it takes to make the Border Patrol honor the law?