US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it could not comment on specific cases for privacy reasons, but added: "All persons arriving at a port-of-entry to the United States are subject to inspection. "CBP officers treat all travellers with integrity, respect, professionalism and according to law.

In March 2025, a claim spread that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained British tourist Becky Burke in Washington state after she was refused entry into the U.S. Snopes readers wrote to us to ask about the legitimacy of a Facebook post purportedly written by Burke's father,

British tourist Becky Burke has spent nearly two weeks in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center. She was denied entry into Canada and re-entry into the United States over a "visa mix-up.