The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.
If it was at a point of entry CBP can search electronic devices without a warrant or suspicion, for a brief time (up to 5 days) without probable cause, under the “border search exception”.
A lot of those border exceptions need to be burnt in a fire, like that one, and the whole “you have no civil rights within 100 miles of a point of entry. btw airports count, so almost no where is free from your rights legally being abused kthnxbai”
This is truth. You are a US citizen, and your rights apply anywhere if the authority is a us citizen.
What stops them from detaining you, driving you to the border and then performing illegal searches. Nothing.
Just because I went on vacation doesn’t mean I forfeited my constitutional rights.
If it was at a point of entry CBP can search electronic devices without a warrant or suspicion, for a brief time (up to 5 days) without probable cause, under the “border search exception”.
A lot of those border exceptions need to be burnt in a fire, like that one, and the whole “you have no civil rights within 100 miles of a point of entry. btw airports count, so almost no where is free from your rights legally being abused kthnxbai”
This is truth. You are a US citizen, and your rights apply anywhere if the authority is a us citizen. What stops them from detaining you, driving you to the border and then performing illegal searches. Nothing. Just because I went on vacation doesn’t mean I forfeited my constitutional rights.
They have the legal right to search a phone before it enters the US, but there is no law that says you can’t wipe your phone first.
They’re shipping people off to places unknown for ‘no law’ too.
Otherwise, simply refuse them passage rather than locking them up and charging them.