Yes they found this out later. But when he was stopped he was some guy of ME background trying to get in the US 3 days after a national emergency with a funny passport.
Once they were stopped their rights as a citizens did not end!
The government knew or should have know these men were citizens long before the lab tests came back. They were treated as GUILTY till proven innocent and all the while NON citizen illegals are free to run the streets with more rights than these citizens.
These men knew they did nothing wrong and to this day they are still not cleared. Does the color of their skin and the fact 1 of them came from another country 40 years ago take away your rights as a citizen?