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Without reason??? His name is "Bachir Atallah"! Clearly, a sinister sounding name like this must be detained, whereas John Smith will be allowed to enter. Part of Making America Great Again is returning to the xenophobia of the 1950s and earlier. Isn't this what ~half of the voters wanted?

To be honest, secondary inspections are fairly commonplace at the US-CAN border. A (white) Canadian friend of ours was deported back to BC and barred from entry for 5yr because she overstayed her tourist visa. This article said he was detained Sunday evening and released by 11pm, which is like 6 hours tops- I’ve heard of people staying 8+ hours.

CLEARLY the fact that his name is Atallah and he and his wife are Lebanese had everything to do with this, but at some point it’s like, read the room. Don’t do int’l travel and expect it to go well in Trump’s Amerika

I hope every single one of these cases results in a lawsuit.

Been saying for awhile now if you plan on leaving the country, plan to move.

Nobody should be coming here right now. It's too dangerous.

Not with the head of ice saying shit like "we want prime but for people" regarding deportations

So basically anyone non-white should never visit, and if youre not white and plan to leave, plan on it just being for good.

Murica

FYI: they weren’t white.

Edit: They also voted for Trump. Yes. You read that correct.

I guess I’ll see about my uncle and his wife. They’re up in Canada this weekend for the holiday. Her family is there.

I think people in here didn't read the article. Border patrol explained that he was just overreacting. Being cuffed and placed in a cell for hours is part of normal operating procedure. It's all fine. Everything is fine.

I have seen some rhetoric about this, like "a few bad apples," but here's the problem with this and a lot of enforcement jobs.

• Polite and decent people, on average, dislike confrontation. Thus, are not particularly attracted to these types of jobs.
• This leads to an uneven amount who are fine with confrontation or even like it. Some of these people are sociopaths and psychopaths.
• People who are psychopaths are actually very attracted to position where they have power over people.
• US Customs are not regulated under the same laws as police or military. They can do what they want, when they want, with little to no discretion.

Are all US customs agents bad? No, of course not. But unchecked power is dangerous for anything. I can't tell you what percentage is or is not, because you can't measure a negative. But I see this in military, police, hired guards, and politics.

Many years ago, they cavity searched an underage girl at my local airport (Dulles) as she returned with her family from a vacation in Jamaica. They separated her from her family, did not tell her family, and searched all her holes "for drugs." They defended their actions by saying, "if we told people we didn't cavity search babies, they'd hide drugs inside babies." Essentially admitting, with no shame, they'd cavity search an infant. All in the name of "stopping drugs." Oh and the girl? US citizen, but dark skinned. The mistake they made was her dad was a powerful attorney and went public.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg66023/html/CHRG-106hhrg66023.htm

https://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/circle/raceprofiling/stories.racial.profiling.html

I've been seriously reconsidering my vacation to Mexico scheduled for the second half of this year. I'm Asian and I have no doubt that I will be "randomly selected" to go through extra screening.