Happened to me too. Fuck America.

CBP also has jurisdiction “within 100 miles of the border”, which is where 2/3rds of Americans live - most of the nations cities.

This is clearly a political act to suppress dissent.

After stamping my wife's passport around 6:30 a.m., the CBP agent at passport control told me that I had to go "somewhere else." That meant secondary inspection. I was handed my passport in a locked plastic box with a bright orange lid and pointed toward a seemingly endless corridor. I told my wife to contact the lawyer if it took "too long."

The waiting room at the end of the corridor was a strange mix of professional courtesy and casual cruelty. I saw agents ask a young man what kind of food they should bring him and reassure an old man that everything will be sorted out. I also saw agents snap at someone who wanted to use the bathroom. "Did you think you could just do that without asking?" an agent shouted as the man walked toward the bathroom door.

This article is the best description I've read of what to expect when they flag you

the reason for it is implied by looking into who he is and what he does. he's not only a journalist but:

Matthew Petti is an assistant editor at Reason and a proud New Jersey native. He has previously reported for the BBC (in Persian and English), The Intercept, The Daily Beast, New Lines magazine, Responsible Statecraft, Middle East Eye, and The National Interest, among other publications. Matthew covers U.S. national security policy and its interactions with American society and domestic politics.

that's not to defend anything that went on. but we know why he was detained.

Wary of the stories I've covered about CBP searching electronics, I didn't bring a working cellphone with me. Around 10:10 a.m., I walked up to the intake desk for the waiting room and asked to use their landline phone. "Our landline?" the agent replied, confused that I would even ask. I said that I wanted to contact a lawyer. He flat-out refused.

"Since the international arrivals inspection is an administrative function, CBP policy and federal regs do not permit the presence of lawyers during secondary examinations," CBP spokesman Stephen Sapp tells me. In other words, when I'm under an administrative rather than a criminal investigation, I have fewer rights than someone accused of a crime.

And so much more and worse. Everyone should read the article.

It's not indefinite, we just don't know when it's gonna end...

Man, I know they are idiots, but that's just silly.

Fortunately, there's a route that's open to everyone. I have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all the data that CBP has on me, from agents' field notes to any automated system hits. However long it takes for CBP to respond, and however heavily they redact the documents, I'm legally entitled to a response. And so are you.

Good to know

Sometimes talking to your Representatives office will help. I've been stopped at the San Diego border, and in Miami (late '80s and late '90s respectively). It was a different time, and I was just a smart-ass asshole until they finally let me go, but these days it's so much darker.

Are you white? No? That's why

Welcome to the Lawless States of America.

Becuase they are the gestapo

Why the fuck should they care? The American justice system is basically defunct by now, exactly how the fascist government wants it to be.

The CBP agents involved should be punished for violating the rights of an American.

If judges refuse to enact such punishments those judges should be punished.

There is no longer any moral code and ethics does nothing but stop unbridled profit. It's pay to play. This has gotten completely out of hand.

What is the meaning of "this is a 1983 claim"?

wHy iS ToURisM dYinG??

Because the feds were somewhere they might go and they wanted to search it while you were away probably without a warrant as usual.

They are absolutely violating the 4th and 5th Amendments here in multiple respects.

Oh wow they're violating the magic rules?! Trump is COOOKED NOW!!!! \s