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[–] this@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is another (illegal I would argue) border phone search. If you come to the us as a non citizen, I would highly reccomend getting a burner phone at this point.

In theory, you have the right to lock your phone with a pin or password and tell them to fuck off if they ask you for it, but I wouldn't depend on that right.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 points 39 minutes ago

You would likely be refused entry for not handing over the phone, legal or not.

Using a burner phone is the best bet.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 49 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Is this not protected speech?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Under the First Amendment, explicitly yes.

[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Does the Constitution apply to non-us citizens?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 hours ago

Yes. It applies to everyone within the borders of the US and US territories, and regardless of whether they are there legally.

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee 7 points 4 hours ago

100% but power is all that matters in the end. I think there’s an exception for invading forces which is why the admin trumped that up for the Venezuelans that were deported.

[–] match@pawb.social 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 hours ago

Well, the courts potentially. I am asking mainly to see whether this guy could impose another costly and embarrassing court case on the administration. While people are saying they can do whatever they want unless stopped, and there is truth to this, the more pushback, the more political cost.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

We, The People.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think we have rules anymore.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

Tbf you don't have regular rules anymore. You only have special orangeman rules that have been enacted despite courts consistently finding they aren't real rules.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 9 hours ago

It should be, but obviously not.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 9 hours ago

Not lately.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 81 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh shit the Nazis have taken over every level of the American government.

Fear for your lives if they approach you. Act accordingly.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I think we already knew they'd taken over Customs and Immigration. This is yet more of the same shit they've been pulling for decades - just more blatant and with a lot more coverage than usual, which is nice that people are finally seeing what they're doing. Eyes-on is, despite the lack of rebellious glamour, a critical thing to have...

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 54 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Can't have any free thinking or free speech in the land of the free, that's not what we mean by free. It doesn't mean you don't have to pay either.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

What does the billboard say?

Come and play

Come and play

Forget about the Movement

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

It's the land of the free.

Let's fight! Please don't hit me too hard, I have American health insurance. Have some sympathy for your enemy?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 10 hours ago

While everyone else was doing freedom of thought, conscience and expression fascists were cooking up their magnum opus: Freedom from thought, freedom from conscience and freedom from expression.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 28 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Damn. Crazy. I was told this only happened in Evil Foreign Country.

Beginning to wonder if Americans are not, in fact, Exceptional.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 hours ago

We’re exceptional in all the wrong ways.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 7 hours ago

I mean they're the first 21st century fascists. That's certainly exceptional.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 hours ago

We’re so utterly fucked. The only silver lining is that none of it is shocking this time, so at least that part’s less exhausting.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 8 points 10 hours ago

DHS looks more and more like east German State Security on Steroids

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

As much as I hate Australians this is over the line.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, keep making jokes. Your country is circling the fascist toilet while you make checks notes an average of 17.5 Lemmy shitpost comments a day.

slow clap

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's not like he's a vowel-hating Icelander.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly even the French rank higher than Australians.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago

Woah, not the fr*nch!

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Huh, been a while since I've seen you around SMCF! Glad you're still up to your hijinx.