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American Citizens: U.S. Border Agents Can Search Your Cellphone
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:16 pm
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When Buffalo, New York couple Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick returned to the U.S. from a trip to Toronto on Jan. 1, 2017, U.S. Customs & Border Protection officers held them for two hours, took their cellphones and demanded their passwords.
"It just felt like a gross violation of our rights," said Shibly, a 23-year-old filmmaker born and raised in New York. But he and McCormick complied, and their phones were searched.
Three days later, they returned from another trip to Canada and were stopped again by CBP.
"One of the officers calls out to me and says, 'Hey, give me your phone,'" recalled Shibly. "And I said, 'No, because I already went through this.'"
The officer asked a second time..
Within seconds, he was surrounded: one man held his legs, another squeezed his throat from behind. A third reached into his pocket, pulling out his phone. McCormick watched her boyfriend's face turn red as the officer's chokehold tightened.
Then they asked McCormick for her phone.
"I was not about to get tackled," she said. She handed it over.
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Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016.
According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year. Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in all of 2015.
"That's shocking," said Mary Ellen Callahan, former chief privacy officer at the Department of Homeland Security. She wrote the rules and restrictions on how CBP should conduct electronic searches back in 2009. "That [increase] was clearly a conscious strategy, that's not happenstance."
"This really puts at risk both the security and liberty of the American people," said Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon. "Law abiding Americans are being caught up in this digital dragnet."
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Under the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement needs at least reasonable suspicion if they want to search people or their possessions within the United States. But not at border crossings, and not at airport terminals.
"The Fourth Amendment, even for U.S. citizens, doesn't apply at the border," said Callahan. "That's under case law that goes back 150 years."
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Careful out there
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:18 pm to NYNolaguy1
Thanks, Donald
This post was edited on 3/14/17 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:18 pm to NYNolaguy1
Apparently it's perfectly legal to do this at the border for those who didn't read it all. It sort of sucks but I suppose it is what it is.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:19 pm to NYNolaguy1
LEOs want us to be super supportive of everything they do but then they go an abuse power or break the law.
It's like they can't help but keep giving people reasons to hate them.
It's like they can't help but keep giving people reasons to hate them.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:19 pm to bigberg2000
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Apparently it's perfectly legal to do this at the border for those who didn't read it all. It sort of sucks but I suppose it is what it is.
Waiting for the "if you have nothing to hide" folks to come out here sooner or later.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:19 pm to NYNolaguy1
dude is a cuck
and a mooslim infiltrating out perimeter
and a mooslim infiltrating out perimeter
quote:
Akram Shibly Follow · January 31 near Buffalo, NY · Couldn't have said it better myself.
This post was edited on 3/14/17 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:21 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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dude is a cuck
and a mooslim infiltrating out perimeter
Why no arrests then?
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:22 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Within seconds, he was surrounded: one man held his legs, another squeezed his throat from behind. A third reached into his pocket, pulling out his
OMG, this is so hot....
quote:
phone
damn...
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:22 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Why no arrests then?
why would they be arrested?
im simply stating he is the definition of americanized beta middle eastern male. im willing to bet he talked some shite at the border and this is why he got choked out
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:23 pm to MasCervezas
Maybe you missed the part that they're citizens?
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:24 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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im willing to bet he talked some shite at the border and this is why he got choked out
Along with 4,999 other people just in February?
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:25 pm to ProjectP2294
quote:BACK THE BLUE bro, don't question anything they do. if not, then you deserve to die.
LEOs want us to be super supportive of everything they do but then they go an abuse power or break the law.
It's like they can't help but keep giving people reasons to hate them.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:25 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Maybe you missed the part that they're citizens?
no, just thought it was a funny pic
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:25 pm to MasCervezas
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just thought it was a funny pic
It is kinda funny.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:27 pm to NYNolaguy1
quote:5k people got choked out?
Along with 4,999 other people just in February?
or had the cell phones looked at?
be specific
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:28 pm to NYNolaguy1
They can search it all they want, but they aren't getting my password.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:29 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year. Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in all of 2015.
Posted on 3/14/17 at 12:29 pm to BiggerBear
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they aren't getting my password.
What do you know about obstruction of justice?
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