Originally Posted by
greggarious
This is interesting to me.
As a US citizen, I'm allowed to return and not technically required to answer questions from CBP.
But this seems like a loophole: if you don't answer additional questions, you can't get on the plane.
I would assume this could face a legal challenge.
Lawsuits being successful against the government for the immediate actions of the airline and/or the airline’s contractor isn’t something I consider to be all that likely. This would be a more difficult challenge than even dealing with governmental no-fly blacklist hits depriving otherwise free US citizens of exercising a fundamental right to return to the country of citizenship.
The government has a history of even denying US citizens a US passport to return home absent some such citizens subjecting themselves to interrogation that may deprive them of their freedom by even placing them in jeopardy of being criminally prosecuted for their answers (honest or otherwise). And those are situations where hiding behind a corporate front doesn’t fly as well.