[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.