>I'm a US citizen. Aside from "is this actually Ryan Lackey, the US citizen?", immigration has no power to keep me out of the country. This is a dangerously si

>I'm a US citizen. Aside from "is this actually Ryan Lackey, the US citizen?", immigration has no power to keep me out of the country. This is a dangerously simplistic view of the US security apparatus that will almost certainly backfire on you if you actually try to test it out. If you happen to resist inquiries in any meaningful way, there's a significant chance that they will seize everything you're carrying, find a means to force you into unlocking your digital devices, then hit them with a fine-toothed comb until they find enough to a straw-man justification to continue detaining you and making your life hell. A few sarcastic or otherwise disestablishmentarian remarks to a CBP offer it all it takes to turn a minute-long interaction into a days or weeks-long holiday in a detention cell. And sure, the extent to which CBP has the right to pry into your digital life is still an emerging area of law, but in the status quo, things lean very much in CBP's (and whatever other law enforcement agencies they decide to pull in) favor. Sure, if you're a US citizen, they'll likely need to eventually let you in, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're out of trouble at that point either. At the very least, you're now a strong candidate for continued surveillance, if not further sanctioning, depending on how the information collected during your re-entry to the country might correlate you with various 'risks to national security'.