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You are aware of the fact that you essentially have no rights at border crossings, right? Even if you are a US citizen entering the US. This is why many compa
by bborud 4mo ago
You are aware of the fact that you essentially have no rights at border crossings, right? Even if you are a US citizen entering the US.
This is why many companies have procedures for when employees visit certain countries, including the US. For instance that you are not allowed to bring your personal phone, your personal and work laptop or any medium that can hold sensitive or proprietary information.
- seviu 4mo agoNot sure if related but this is my story. I am Spanish. When leaving SF back to Europe from a Google IO, after control, waiting to scan my luggage, an officer stood besides me and started speaking in Spanish besides me. The first minute my brain didn’t register because though Spanish is my mother tongue, I guess it was not ready for that. The police officer started to get irritated. Eventually my brain switched, I had a chat with him and he left. I was totally freaked out the rest of the time, till the moment I boarded. Only then I realized how frail our rights are when you are abroad.
- rafram 4mo agoThis seems very innocuous? Almost a third of Californians speak Spanish natively.
- Cider9986 4mo agoThey can delay you until they confirm you're a US citizen, but they can't prevent you from reentering.
- trumpdong 4mo agoThey can just not make any effort to confirm that.
- swat535 4mo agoThey can make your life difficult for sure, but they can't hold you indefinitely as a citizen.
- trumpdong 4mo agoWhat stops them?
- bborud 4mo agoIn this day and age? Not much.
- iamnothere 4mo agoYour friends and family and lawyers. Stop laying down and showing your belly. When are you going to start standing up for yourself?
- trumpdong 4mo agoHow will they stop them?
- iamnothere 4mo agoFile a lawsuit, and if that fails go to the media. Or do both at the same time. As bad as things are, we don’t live in 1984 or Soviet Russia yet, and this works for citizens. Maybe there’s one or two cases where this hasn’t worked, but that would be an extreme outlier. The courts still strongly support habeas corpus for citizens.
- trumpdong 4mo agoDid that work for all the other people currently in a concentration camp right now?
- iamnothere 4mo ago
- rafram 4mo ago> Even if you are a US citizen entering the US. Is this really the case? As far as I understand it, US citizens have an absolute right to enter the country. So they can sit you in a room and ask you questions all afternoon, but eventually they have to let you in.
- bborud 4mo agoLook it up.