I do not need thugs at the border to give me a hard time because they feel empowered to do whatever they want. My non-white (but Americans born) partner is even more concerned. Sure, they have to let you back into the country, but they can make it painful.
I flew back in from Costa Rica to ATL and went through customs. Nothing has changed.
I’m flying into BUF in July and taking a cab to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and back. We will see what happens.
If they can put people onto an airplane and fly them to a Salvadoran gulag in the middle of recess in a court case about how they can't do that - and then laugh about it - the law is very clearly not a limit they care about.
I have doubts that waving your passport or your service medals in their face will at the end of the day, prove very convincing either.
Unless you have friends, family or empathy.
And if there's no due process for non-citizens, there's no due process for citizens either. That congress is allowing this to happen is deeply, deeply fucked.
one of the failings behind their unprofessionalism is that the civil case treatment doesnt afford the same protections and right to legal counsel as a criminal case
is this one of those things you need a source for, or can you listen to the concerns of other people and find the source yourself
Sure. And lose your day to being held for fuck all. Like I hear you, and I absolutely have the vindictive streak that would drive me to do this under the right circumstances. But you should be prepared to be detained, harassed, all while maintaining your cool and collecting detailed mental notes for follow through with a lawsuit.
If you’re planning on pulling a stunt like this, a better plan is to have someone on the outside who will call your lawyer. Or better yet, tell your lawyer what you’re doing so they can call you.
Refusing to be searched at the border.
I’ve honestly been a dick twice through immigration, once accidentally and once a bit more purposely. I haven’t seen any evidence of this pattern of retribution. Like, civil-rights activists exist and aren’t constantly held up at the border.
Or you could be a birthright citizen in which case you can be detained just to be the test subject in the supreme court case.
In summary no one is safe except Trump at this point.