[bborud]

You are aware of the fact that you essentially have no rights at border crossings, right? Even if you are a US citizen entering the US.

This is why many companies have procedures for when employees visit certain countries, including the US. For instance that you are not allowed to bring your personal phone, your personal and work laptop or any medium that can hold sensitive or proprietary information.

[rafram]

> Even if you are a US citizen entering the US.

Is this really the case? As far as I understand it, US citizens have an absolute right to enter the country. So they can sit you in a room and ask you questions all afternoon, but eventually they have to let you in.

[bborud]

Look it up.

[Cider9986]

They can delay you until they confirm you're a US citizen, but they can't prevent you from reentering.

[trumpdong]

They can just not make any effort to confirm that.

[swat535]

They can make your life difficult for sure, but they can't hold you indefinitely as a citizen.

[trumpdong]

What stops them?

[iamnothere]

Your friends and family and lawyers.

Stop laying down and showing your belly. When are you going to start standing up for yourself?

[trumpdong]

How will they stop them?

[bborud]

In this day and age? Not much.

[seviu]

Not sure if related but this is my story. I am Spanish. When leaving SF back to Europe from a Google IO, after control, waiting to scan my luggage, an officer stood besides me and started speaking in Spanish besides me.

The first minute my brain didn’t register because though Spanish is my mother tongue, I guess it was not ready for that. The police officer started to get irritated. Eventually my brain switched, I had a chat with him and he left.

I was totally freaked out the rest of the time, till the moment I boarded.

Only then I realized how frail our rights are when you are abroad.

[rafram]

This seems very innocuous? Almost a third of Californians speak Spanish natively.