WASHINGTON – Diane Zorri was about to get her passport stamped at Miami International Airport when a customs agent approached with an ominous declaration.

“He said, ‘hey, we’ve been waiting for you,'” Zorri recalled of the 2017 incident, in which she was led into a small room for questioning after returning to the United States from a vacation in Italy. “The first thing that rushes through my mind is ‘was my family murdered while I was on the plane and they’re here to tell me about it?’ I was horrified.”

Zorri’s family was fine, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents demanded that the Florida professor and former Air Force captain