It's my experience that once you get sent to secondary they have already decided to fuck you, they are just deciding which flimsy excuse they will use to do it. My totally non-legal conjecture (and livid experience) is if you are a citizen they will play mind games with you in secondary or a holding cell for hours to a day or so and then eventually reluctantly release you after muttering threats about revoking your passport and/or not letting you in.
Detainment for having a phone without any content in it is just pure and utter fascism.
Authoritarianism always finds a way, but it's shocking that 60 million invited it for dinner.
They thought it would only be a TV dinner. The bad stuff wasn't supposed to happen on their side of the TV screen.
Brown Girl in The Ring, in other words.
These border searched have existed since the patriot act...