Originally Posted by
GUWonder
The CBP can't lawfully hold a US person indefinitely. The CBP might lose or misclassify a person and/or the belongings, but the CBP doesn't have a lawful ability to hold admissible persons indefinitely.
False. The Military Commissions Act allows the US to hold anyone for any reason for any period of time so long a they invoke the magic words "may be related in some way to tw'errism.". As far as we know, they haven't used that provision as far as it might go, but they have certainly tried various flavours of the provisions.