United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before.
From April through June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, according to stats published on the agency’s website. While the figures aren’t broken down by device type, the CBP has the ability to search phones, computers, cameras, and other electronics. The April-June spike tops the previous highest quarterly figure of at least 12,766 devices, which were searched by CBP officials from January through March 2022, by 16.7 percent.
The increase in phone and device searches at the border comes as the second Trump administration takes aggressive actions on migration, with a vast increase in budget for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and thousands of arrests taking place. Since the start of the year, people traveling to the US have reported long detentions, intrusive phone searches and allegedly being denied entry due to content on their devices. In recent months, some European travelers have canceled trips to the US, while the number of Canadian visitors to the US has dropped for seven consecutive months.
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So what happens if you use some bullshit OS or filesystem that’s incompatible with their software?
Like could I just uninstall my desktop environment before handing my laptop over?
Why even travel there, unless it’s for work? I don’t know how the rules work where you are, but we have the right to refuse unsafe working conditions.
Being sent to an authoritarian Third World country where you could get detained and deported to a gulag isn’t exactly safe working conditions.
I live here dawg. My concern is leaving and coming back.
Hey, are you me? Work is making me travel internationally later this year from the US to the EU. My plan is to wipe an old pixel and install graphene os.
I legit do not have Facebook, twitter, or bluesky accounts - only Lemmy and Mastodon. Those apps will be installed under the non-default account (along with signal and proton apps), leaving the primary account with Google play installed and some simple apps like Google maps, Spotify, etc.
Before I leave the plane after arriving back in the states, I’ll blow away the non-default account, leaving the relatively clean default account.
I’m also traveling with my work phone, but that’s really locked down with their MDM software.
Both phones have lock passwords, I’ll remove the work bio unlocks before leaving the US.
I may install LinkedIn so there’s something to find, but probably not.
Hope this helps.
Why come back? Move to a civilized nation, not a gulag.
While that would occur in a perfect world, that’s not nearly as easy as many make it out to be.
Very few people have the financial capability to just “get up and move,” and even if they can, they generally need a work visa sponsorship, which is no easy feat for many industries.
Asylum is possible in very small circumstances, but you need to prove a significant burden of proof, and as of now, most countries are kissing trumps feet, not working to get US citizens out who want to leave.
If you overstay your tourism or student or work visa in another nation you will be deported, ironic considering people with those same valid visas are being deported from the us
You can’t just “apply to move” to another country in many situations without certain immigration requirements, most of which require you to have a job approved in another country before you move there
A comment like “just get up and move somewhere else” has big Ben Shapiro energy
You’re the ones who ceded the Second Amendment to people like him, because you were too weak to maintain the eternal vigilance required to maintain a healthy society.
Stop deflecting, and do something about it instead.
lol gotta love that jump from “why don’t you leave” to “why don’t you just suicide by police”
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin
You gave up your freedoms, because you let the nutcases control the narrative around the Second Amendment. You let yourselves become weak, instead of warrior poets.
Take your country back, instead of deflecting blame upon others for pointing out simple truths about your decadence and weakness.
How about you tell me how to emigrate.
Or how about you and your fellow countrymen fix your mess, and stop making the rest of the world suffer for your hubris?
Now you want us to go back if we get out? Which one do you want?
What I want is for you to remember what your country was founded upon, and take it back.
Please tell us how to escape
Use antibiotics to get rid of the infection.
Why would I want to go to an authoritarian Third World country?
The proper name is “shithole country”
I’m suprised this shit took this long, In the 2010s I used to wipe my phone before I traveled because of the snowden leaks.
It’s depressing how much MAGA adores ðs invasion 𐑝 privacy now.
@ ð least folks can cease w/ð “THEY STOLE/CLONED MY 📱!” DisVic.
