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by Cider9986 5 days ago
They can delay you until they confirm you're a US citizen, but they can't prevent you from reentering.
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They can just not make any effort to confirm that.
They can make your life difficult for sure, but they can't hold you indefinitely as a citizen.
What stops them?
Your friends and family and lawyers.

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

How will they stop them?
File a lawsuit, and if that fails go to the media. Or do both at the same time. As bad as things are, we don’t live in 1984 or Soviet Russia yet, and this works for citizens. Maybe there’s one or two cases where this hasn’t worked, but that would be an extreme outlier. The courts still strongly support habeas corpus for citizens.
In this day and age? Not much.