Complaints Describe Border Agents Interrogating Muslim Americans, Asking for Social Media Accounts
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/01/14/complaints-describes-border-agents-interrogating-muslim-americans-aski
Customs and Border Protection agents have been invasively questioning Muslim-Americans at U.S. border crossings about their political and religious beliefs, asking for their social media information, and demanding passwords to open mobile phones, according to a set of complaints filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In one case, a 23-year old American citizen alleges that he was choked by a CBP agent after declining to hand over his phone for inspection while crossing (...)