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Fabian Schmidt, a green card holder returning from Luxembourg, was violently interrogated by customs agents. His green card was flagged due to a prior arrest on his record, turning a routine airport encounter into a bureaucratic nightmare. Another case involved a doctor with a work visa who was denied entry into the country and flown out of the US despite a court order halting her deportation.
CBP's databases have access to state, local, and federal law enforcement records. For noncitizens, even minor infractions can lead to serious consequences. In Schmidt's case, a dismissed misdemeanor from 2015 for having marijuana in his car was enough to trigger a violent interrogation.
Legal immigrants are finding themselves in the government's crosshairs, with their arrests facilitated by DHS's vast surveillance capabilities. This shows the latitude individual officers and agents have to enforce immigration law, determining a noncitizen's treatment and fate.
These recent events - people with valid travel documents being detained and interrogated, sometimes violently - aren't entirely unusual. Any noncitizen, including legal immigrants, can end up in deportation proceedings, highlighting the latitude individual officers and agents have to enforce immigration law.
