My uncle came back from a trip to mexico and had to go to arizona airport and then back to lax, he says that they took him to a room and questioned him. Supposedly they were looking for a guy with the same last name as him. He is a permanent resident so nothing happened but says that they were real assholes and racist. (He is 35 years old, light skinned, regular person)
My 19 year old brother born us citizen also came back from mexico from vacation and had to stop in arizona and then come back to lax was "randomly" checked after he had walked through a metal detector and didnt even go off. they asked him if he wanted to be searched in a private room or right there on the spot, he chose to have it right there. Said lady carefully searched him for 20 minutes. While he was being searched some white guy went through a metal detector and it went off and said "why arent you searching him?!!!" they just briefly checked the white guy for about 30 seconds and they let him go.
Says the airport was not crowded at all. This was about 3 weeks ago. My uncle was about 2 months ago.