France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashedEnglish
    5•1 day ago

    Since, like the moment I learned about the US Borders.

    It’s always been a thing, you see a lot of these in r/privacy and now c/pricacy

    Only US Citizens can refuse the search and still enter* but their devices could still be confiscated.

    *for now

    • Aatube
      1•1 day ago

      I have a quote above. As SF said, agents who do that would be violating court rulings.