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Have you ever experienced being detained by CBP?

No I haven't because the odds of it happening to an ordinary person are a rounding error, now and at any other point in time.

Nobody wants to be that rounding error.

German and another Europeans were detained by ICE and ended up spending weeks in solitary confinement, past their plane back.

The US government has already been rounding people up who haven’t committed a crime. Most notably a student from Columbia college. This is a real danger.

They've also been shipping people off to a prison in El Salvador without due process and, according to them, no way to bring them back if they send the wrong person.

Avoiding travel to the US right now is a perfectly reasonable decision.