As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
I opted against taking a burner phone—a move that some legal experts had advised, in the press—believing it would provoke suspicion, and simply decided to give my phone and social media a superficial clean.
But C.B.P. had prepared for me well before my arrival. They did not need to identify me at LAX as someone worthy of investigation: they had evidently decided that weeks before. […] In either case, a U.S. government officer must have read my work and decided that I was not fit to enter the country. Because Officer Martinez had apparently read all of my material so long ago, he didn’t even know that I had taken all this material down. What this means is that, by the time a foreigner cleans his social media in preparation for a trip to the U.S., as much of our news media has been urging us to do, it may already be too late.
This had nothing to do with recovering any data from the phone. The information was already known to them.
Sure, which served to help with cruelty and embarrassment, but there’s no clear connection to some legal condition for deportation being met by finding anything on his phone. Possibly the CBP agent’s bluff about drug use was easier to pull off with the phone in hand.
This had nothing to do with recovering any data from the phone. The information was already known to them.
Keep reading. They had a nice browse through his dick pics.
Sure, which served to help with cruelty and embarrassment, but there’s no clear connection to some legal condition for deportation being met by finding anything on his phone. Possibly the CBP agent’s bluff about drug use was easier to pull off with the phone in hand.