More than 40 congressional Democrats said in a letter that CBP actions have turned international travel to the U.S. into a "nightmarish ordeal."

A green card holder detained on return to the United States and denied access to medications.

A green card holder detained on return to the United States and denied access to medications. The handcuffing and body search of an American citizen after she questioned the detention of her German travel partner. The detention for five days of an immigrant mother and her two children who became sick in custody.

Recent reports about Customs and Border Protection actions at ports of entry are the focus of a letter signed by more than 40 Democratic members of Congress questioning the agency’s practices and demanding information about complaints of agents’ misconduct, among other things.

The agency appears to be denying entry to noncitizens more often and subjecting travelers to “harsher questioning tactics, prolonged detention and arbitrary denials of entry,” the lawmakers said in a letter provided first to NBC News.

They said the CBP conduct appears to be a response to President Donald Trump’s directive to the Department of Homeland Security to step up vetting of noncitizens who want to come to the United States and of those already in the country.

The actions have turned ordinary international travel “into a nightmarish ordeal for tourists, business travelers, lawful permanent residents ... and even U.S. citizens,” they said in the letter, which is addressed to the acting heads of CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/border-agents-tactics-ports-entry-democrats-question-rcna203585

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