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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Applies to US citizens too
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 06:33 PM
Sep 2017
http://www.businessinsider.com/can-us-border-agents-search-your-phone-at-the-airport-2017-2

There is some discrimination:

In 25 cases from 2016 NBC analyzed by talking to people who had their phones searched at the border and verifying the instances with experts, 23 of the victims were Muslim. Several of the plaintiffs in the ACLU lawsuit are Muslim or people of color.


"US citizens and green-card holders have the right to request an attorney," he said. "It's not clear at all whether the government has been respecting those requests to the extent that it should."

The 19,033 travelers who had their devices searched in 2016 were among 391 million travelers to the US that year. In 2015, 8,503 travelers had their devices searched, and through April 2017, 14,993 travelers had their devices searched.

From October 2008 to June 2010, by contrast, over 6,500 people had their electronic devices searched at the border, nearly half of whom were US citizens, according to government data provided to the ACLU through a Freedom of Information Act request.


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