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"I don't know how they can keep the 18 year old citizen from reentering without opening themselves up to a massive law suit."

Since I don't know anyone who refuses to answer questions when returning from overseas, I'm not sure what right they have to re-enter (in this case).

But I do know that if they will answer the questions, they will be allowed back in. They may thrown in jail based on their answers, but they will be allowed back here.

If the case was some pervert coming back from Thailand instead of a Muzzie (hard to which is contrary to human existence, by the way), they would get the treatment.

In other words, no one is preventing re-entry, but they are preventing unconditonal re-entry - just as they would with me if I came back from Toronto.

"Since I don't know anyone who refuses to answer questions when returning from overseas, I'm not sure what right they have to re-enter (in this case)."

Uh, these guys are being forced to answer questions by the FBI, not the INS. I'll bet you also don't know anyone who was told to submit to interrogation from the FBI when returning from overseas. I doubt that the INS has blanket authority to question CITIZEN returnees on every subject under the sun, on pain of being refused admission if they do not answer.

And they are being forced to do it in a country where their rights are less than if they were in the United States - we know that the Fourth Amendment is not effective, possibly the Fifth is also not effective? Why doesn't the FBI wait to readmit them to the United States and then question them?

Since I don't know anyone who refuses to answer questions when returning from overseas, I'm not sure what right they have to re-enter (in this case).

This isn't a case of people refusing to answer questions when returning to the U.S. The two men are on the no-fly list, so they weren't allowed on the airplane to even GET to the U.S. when they tried to return here via Hong Kong. The airline told them when connecting in Hong Kong that they couldn't fly them here. They wouldn't be able to fly from New York to L.A., either.

That wouldn't necessarily stop them from being able to fly to Canada or Mexico and driving across the border, from taking a boat to get here, or perhaps even chartering a plane to get here.

Once on American soil, immigration officials would hopefully detain and extensively question the men about their terrorist ties and arrest them if warranted.