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Dearborn, Michigan – The journey is a normal part of the life of Michigan lawyer. He went from abroad recently in December and returned home to the United States without any problems.
“I’ve been outside the country at least 20 times. All I have been in Europe. I go to Lebanon every year,” he said.
However, this month was a very different experience to return to Detroit Metro Airport.
When he and his family reached a customs checkpoint, he came home from a summer break from the Dominican Republic.
“The agent looked at me and then looked at another agent and asked if TTTt agents were here. I didn’t know what it means.”
Walked to abbreviation. Tactical terrorist stands for response groups.
“As an Arab American and a Muslim American, when I travel, I will be randomly selected to be chosen randomly, even if I have a trip from Canada.”
“When he says those words, I thought,” Well, I will be profiling here. “
Of course, enough, Makled and his family were asked to go to another room.
Makled, as a US citizen born in Detroit, Michigan knew that the entrance could not be denied. He called on his wife and children to cross the checkpoint without his.
“I knew my rights to the border in this regard. I also got acquainted with the degree of border search,” he said. “This is the first time I stopped.”
However, what happened, the lawyer would be put in a careful situation.
Border control agents have a significant legal rights to search for a person’s items. The idea is to prevent the threats, smugglers or environmental threats into the country.
However, these searches extend to the content of electronic devices. This raises questions about what material adjustment and the government needs to be protected from prying eyes.
A hazard for lawyer-customer privilege
Mached knew that border agents could get their phone. However, as a lawyer, he faced a thorny ethical dilemma. His phone has a privileged lawyer customer information.
In the United States, the main history of the legal system will be hidden in the security of the fact that they can lead to sincere discussions with a client’s lawyer, what they say.
It was processed in an important amount on his phone. When he handed his hand, he told the border staff he could not give the facilities.
“All my emails, text messages, my documents, the cloud-based program I used for my office,” he said, “All of my phone.”
As a civil rights and a criminal defense lawyer, representing people who say that it is especially sensitive.
One of his customers is a Palestinian protesters arrested in a Palestinian camp at Michigan University last year. He was later accused of resisting and obstructing police to the police sentenced to two years in prison.
Mirced, border officers believe that this information is targeted because they know. One of the agents called him a “famous lawyer,” he made a statement to refer to the protest lawyer.
In the end, he gave the written allowed agents to see his contacts, but there are no other permissions. About 90 minutes after the airport, it was allowed to leave his phone.
A growing trend
During about a century, 19 of the US Code allowed the border control officials to the search for the country, luggage or other items in the inspection.
However, digital facilities include more information today because it is related to a person’s visit.
The latest financial year saw 47,047 Electronic devices wanted by border control workers, the vast majority of the United States belonging to non-US citizens.
This is about 13 percent increase in the previous year of the previous fiscal year in 2023, US Customs and Border Protection 41,767 Electronic searches.
The issue of manipulating this search for political income or revenge in these searches was pushed for a long time.
In November 2018, an employee of Apple Tech, Andreas Gal, Andreas Gal, San Francisco was arrested while returning from the international visit.
As a position, the gal is flagged for TTRT. As a lawyer, customs officers were forced to search for his electronic devices. Refused. Then Gal said he believed he was targeting in response to the political views he expressed online.
However, in recent weeks, experts are afraid of the danger of such search.
After the second time in January, President Donald Trump, the United States or ally wanted to deport the inventories that see that Israel is critical. The material from electronic devices is among the alleged evidence used by the country to expel people from the country.
For example, a kidney transplant specialist Russian-basawieh After the local Lebanon returned to the United States, he refused to entrust. He had a H-1B visa that allows you to work in the United States.
News, Trump administration, phone, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, including pictures of Hassan Nasrallah, shows that he quotes photographs to get rid of his phone.
“The glorification and support of the terrorists who killed Americans are basic to reject visa issuance,” Homeland Security Administration wrote in a statement After Alawieh’s excluded.
In March, in March, the French government prevented a scientist, one of the scientists from entering political messages on his phone.
Trump management rejected the accusation.
“The French researcher in question, confidential information on the electronic device from the National Laboratory of Los Alamos,” Homeland security wrote in the social media in the media.
“Any lawsuits based on political beliefs of its removal are obvious.”
Lack of legal consensus
There are two types of demonstrations of a device while under the border control control.
“Light” search occurs when an officer is seen from an electronic device. A developed search that requires a “reasonable doubt” of a crime is the fact that the device is associated with external equipment. The device cannot be returned to the owner for weeks or months.
No guarantees need to search for the electronic device of border agents, although US citizens do not have to unlock electronics to re-enter their countries.
However, the United States may or may not be rejected by refusing to share this information for non-permanent resident travelers.
However, experts have a serious concern for the fourth amendment of the US Constitution, protected by the government’s unreasonable search and the seizure of the government.
Esha Bhandari, Deputy Director of American Civil Freedoms Association, Privacy and Technology Project, using these border inspections, saw the samples of the government due to the protection of the fourth amendments.
“The government is more of a constitutional gap,” said Bhandari.
“They have someone under investigation and wait for a judge to be a guarantee that someone is expected to have a comfortable border and waiting for their devices as a comfortable opportunity to search for.”
But this is the issue of arguing as much as possible.
Saira Husseini, a large delegation in the electronic border foundation, said that the courts in the United States could not search and how many limits did not reach the search.
“San Francisco vs. Boston vs. Atlanta have three different decisions in which part of your phone, which part of your phone, for what purposes for what purposes are needed (or) the level of doubt,” Hussain said. “A number of low courts have prevailed on the issue, (but) there was no unity.”
In turn, he said he did not hesitate to travel or did not represent controversial reasons.
“I feel this intimidation tactic. This is an attempt to refuse to accept this type of cases,” he said.
“I say I say I will leave. I will continue to do what I believe.”
