[Flash Bazbeaux]

"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?

[BobL]

I realize what the article says, but I just don't buy it all.

I have no doubt that the FBI would meet them in Canada, if they went there. What this country is sick of doing and bringing back people who have been training as terrorists and then having to spend a fortune on them to keep this country safe (either sending them home or detaining them).

If these A-Holes will not answer questions, I do not care if they EVER step on US soil again. And I have ZERO fear, given my (relatively) honest lifestyle that this could EVER happen to me.

But I certainly do fear what these guys could do to my family and my country if they ever came in here after receiving 4 years of terrorist training in Pakistan (which is all that the FBI is trying to find out - for us).

[Marine Inspector]

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.

We don't and it's very unlikely the FBI has that authority either.

What's the FBI going to do, if he arrives and refuses to speak with them? They can't deport him and neither can CBP.

Unless the FBI has enough to arrest the guy, there is not much they can do.