Tourist Says He Was Denied Entry To U.S. Over A Seemingly Innocent Photo — And It Could Happen To You
Seeing Vice President JD Vance as a bald, bright sphere can make you laugh – but can you refuse the entrance on the US border?
According to a tourist, yes. Norwegian tourist Mads Mikkelsen said Nordlys rejected the entry to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on June 11, after calling the phone calls the phone and found a Vance breast on the phone camera roller and then questioning her right -wing extremism and drug smuggling.
Mikkelsen later said Nordlys, whom he said to the border officials in Germany and New Mexico, said he tried cannabis, but he didn’t think it was important because both of them are legal.
Deputy Secretary of the Department of Interior Security Tricia McLaughlin rejected the allegations that Mikkelsen was the reason for the increasing examination of the breast. “Mads Mikkelsen claims that his entry was rejected because of a JD Vance breast” written “Mikkelsen refused to enter the United States for drug use.”
But, regardless of Mikkelsen’s story, a political MEM on your phone could be the reason you refuse the entrance? Follow -up President Donald Trump‘S executive order Border agents use aggressive tactics on legal immigrants and tourists for “advanced veterinarian”.
Petra Molnar, a lawyer and writer, said, “It is absolutely possible to use a MEM or an article or a photograph as the basis of rejection of the entrance,” he said.The walls have eyes: survival migration in the age of artificial intelligence. “
“Decisions on the border are quite optional, and more importantly to examine the social media for so -called risky behaviors of the border practice,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Latest plans To scan the people who apply for a visa to the United States for the “hostility özen perceived to the United States and to make them“ public için to examine their social media accounts.
Molnar, in this existing climate, as a stupid joke, what can be used as the basis of detention, questioning and deportation, “he said.
What you need to know when traveling feels more risky than ever.
Border agents have broad discretionary authority. US citizens have more protection than tourists and visa holders.
Yes, the US government Allegations The right to search for your electronic devices when you cross the boundaries, but if you are a US citizen, no matter what ridiculous cartoons are on your phone, the entrance cannot be rejected.
“You are an American citizen. ‘Oh, you don’t come to your own country.’
However, as a US citizen, you can confiscate inquiries, travel delays or devices because it refuses to comply with device calls. “It can be confiscated for a few weeks or months, C Cope said.
In the meantime, visitors and visa holders have less rights than US citizens when they travel to the United States, and said, “The entrance may be particularly vulnerable to rejection or at least the possibility of delivering their devices indefinitely,” he said.
Cope said a tourist’s border agent that denies on the breast was “absurd, but Norway visitor had no real recourse, because he is not a US citizen.
“Unfortunately, non -green card holders, non -citizens, there is almost no leverage in order not to comply with the request for access to their devices,” he said.
It helps you know what your rejection is. Know your rights about what border representatives can do and cannot do to prepare for the trip. Know they are He needs to put your phone in aircraft mode They don’t have to look at cloud -based applications before they start searching, but reports Those who say that social media accounts are reviewed.
Molnar, “disable biometric definitions like faceid, limit automatic cloud access, set lost messages, and consider switching to signal applications,” he said. You may also go one step further and consider lifting the materials that may request a second phone or not to bring your laptop or to review more, ”he said.
Know it is not necessary To share your password to unlock your phone, but the entry can be rejected because visa holders and visitors refuse.
When asked, neither customs and border protection nor internal security department claim A border agency said he would be imprisoned or fined because he did not share the phone password code. When asked DHS, HuffPost directed McLughlin to the public statement about Mikkelsen’s entry on drug use.
To be clear, Cope explained, there is no legal basis for customs and border protection officials who threaten a fined for refusing to share a password for a imprisonment and a password for a device search. “Basically, the entrance is either rejected or your phone is confiscated,” he said. “There is no crime there.”
There are pros and cons to reject a device search, and your personal risk is highly dependent on your immigration situation. “People have to balance the privacy invasion of a device call, do their entry be rejected? Or are they at risk of escaping or detention from a flight?” Cope said.
Ultimately, if you’re nervous about what might be when traveling to the United States, you are right to feel this way.
“It seems very touching about people who somehow expressed the opposition of this administration to the Trump administration,” Cope said. “And [this JD Vance meme] The best kind of opposition. “
“People are rightly worried about the growing surveillance apparatus in the United States, which includes the social media content,” Molnar said, “Molnar said. He stated that the right to confidentiality is not only about to avoid examining against injustice, but also about “freedom from personal autonomy and surveillance, our rights that are increasingly under attack”.
The only thing we know is: because of this story, the Vice -vice president’s vice presidents will be seen even more, and this management has no control power.
