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my understanding is that they can hold you for a couple days without charges for your insubordination but as a citizen they have to let you back into the country or officially arrest you, try to get an actual warrant, etc.


they can just break the law


There is no law when entering the country. They can do everything they want, or making up anything they'll imagine.




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