{"id":72631,"date":"2025-05-07T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=72631"},"modified":"2025-05-07T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:02:57","slug":"u-s-travel-detentions-whos-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=72631","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Travel Detentions: Who\u2019s Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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High-profile deportations, detentions and denials of U.S. travelers are making Americans nationwide wonder who\u2019s safe to enter and leave the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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High-profile deportations, detentions and denials of U.S. travelers are making Americans nationwide wonder who\u2019s safe to enter and leave the country.<\/p>\n

With these increased stops and searches at U.S. borders and airports, electronic device searches are at an all-time high.<\/p>\n

Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents searched over 47,000 electronic devices last year, up tenfold from a decade ago \u2014 and \u201cthat number is going to explode,\u201d said Richard Herman, founder of immigration firm\u00a0Herman Legal Group<\/a>, at a Friday, May 2 American Community Media briefing on travelers\u2019 rights at the U.S. border.<\/p>\n

Electronic searches and students<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe U.S. is no stranger to making the Constitution a document of convenience. We\u2019ve interned American citizens in camps during World War Two; whether Japanese, German or Italian Americans, we\u2019ve done atrocious things to our own people,\u201d Herman continued. \u201cWhat\u2019s different this time are the vast amounts of technology that can be deployed by the government against us, whether facial recognition technology or AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

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