After consulting with a supervisor, the official returned and said that he planned to take away Makled’s device unless the lawyer gave up the list of contacts on it. Makled felt he had no choice but to acquiesce.

So they can just steal your stuff and go through your information in spite of the 4th amendment, not to mention attorney client confidentiality? That doesn’t seem right at all, what does an attorney specializing in this stuff say? (arc)

So because citizens have an absolute right to reenter the country, they have a bit more leverage to, you know, deny a request or refuse to comply with requests to unlock their phone. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be consequences. They could be detained for several hours. Their phone could eventually be confiscated. So even U.S. citizens have to think about those potential consequences.

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[As for lawful permanent residents,] [t]echnically, they also have to be let back into the country, but as we’ve seen in sort of a nonborder contexts, the government and the current administration is pretty willing to question the status of LPRs. And so we always say that, you know, they should be especially kind of mindful and thoughtful about how they comport themselves at the border.

“Technically you have rights and stuff, but there could be consequences for exercising them and you should be mindful of how you comport yourself,” jesus fuckin christ it is bleak out here