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U.S. citizenship and deportation

U.S. citizenship legally prohibits deportation, but multiple recent public reports document U.S. citizens who were arrested or detained by CBP or ICE, sometimes because agents questioned their identity or immigration status.

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How long can Customs and Border Protection detain a US citizen at a port of entry?

has broad authority at ports of entry and there is no single statutory time limit that uniformly caps ; courts and practice, however, generally constrain excessive delays, and CBP’s own reporting show...