[ilikehurdles]

There have been several cases where legal American Citizens have been put into deportation proceedings or formally deported. All it takes is for a border agent to choose not to believe the documents you’re handing over. There is no rule at the federal level that entitles noncitizens to trials. So a border agent declaring you a noncitizen without court oversight strips you of your constitutional rights. One US citizen was detained by ICE for 3 years, other reports exist of 1-year detentions. It all really depends on how poor you are and how backed up (by design) the system is.

Anyway, a citizen being turned away, shipped back, or put into deportation at the airport isn’t a far reach from any of this.

[dudul]

Do you have a link to any of these stories? I have heard of US citizens being detained and bullied at the border, but they were always eventually admitted into the country after a few hours of "purgatory".

Where would you even try to deport a US citizen? "Here, Spain, we don't think this guy is a US citizen, his passport doesn't look legit enough, can you take him?"

[ilikehurdles]

The 3-year detention story: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540903038...

An incomplete wikipedia list with a number of citizens that were wrongfully deported from the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Americans_from_...

U.S. citizens having deportation detainers placed on them is suprisingly common: https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-polic...

This guy was held for weeks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/04/born-philad...

U.S. citizen detained without charge for a year and then freed: https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/detention/us-cit...

There are dozens of stories like these. I've listed a few, but to go further I'd recommend doing a web search.

[dudul]

Thanks for sharing. I guess the difference is that none of these stories involves crossing the border (or maybe I missed some details, that was a lot to read :). Still positively frightening that the system could so badly fail.