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How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by JohnFen »

seethishat wrote: post #4

Don't carry them with you. I'm old and I can tell you from experience... you can live life without holding a cellphone all the time. It's not as hard as you think.

Or, if you want to have one with you, leave your regular cell phone at home (or ship it ahead to your destination via parcel carrier) and carry a burner/travel-only phone instead. Don't put any personal data on that phone. Not even contact numbers. Carry those in printed form separately.

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by comrade1234 »

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement have already started targeting travelers, with agents in plain clothes forcefully detaining a mother in front of her young daughter at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday after a tip from the Transportation Security Administration."

I don't think the tsa is at sfo. They use a private contractor for tsa functions. Is the quote made-up?

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Post by HoldOnAMinute »

seethishat wrote: post #4

Don't carry them with you. I'm old and I can tell you from experience... you can live life without holding a cellphone all the time. It's not as hard as you think.

Maybe the world needs a virtual phone in the cloud which you access with a browser from a dumb device.

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Post by mindslight »

JMKH42 wrote: post #15
htx80nerd wrote: post #5

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While heartily agreeing with the thrust of your comment, I think the answer has to do with whether they are "uppity" or if they have an aggrieved husband.

(of course the outgroup always morphs to fit the current needs of the regime. and by the time it's "good upstanding family men" being executed often enough that it's un-ignorable, it will be too late for most of them to suddenly develop morals)

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Post by calderarrow »

ishouldstayaway wrote: post #20
Ekaros wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only go to good parts. Like Mexico and South America in general.

In English, "America" means the USA specifically. But you knew that already and decided to just post bait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by mothballed »

vkou wrote: post #25
next_xibalba wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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What social safety net? Is there some office that I can just show up without any papers and get free money?

You basically can for WIC, but that's about it. Although the other big one is public schooling is also almost always entitled to everyone at quite high cost (despite poor performance per dollar).

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by jcrawfordor »

comrade1234 wrote: post #22

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement have already started targeting travelers, with agents in plain clothes forcefully detaining a mother in front of her young daughter at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday after a tip from the Transportation Security Administration." I don't think the tsa is at sfo. They use a private contractor for tsa functions. Is the quote made-up?

TSA does more than just the security checkpoints, even at airports with privatized screening TSA does all of the back-office work, including some on-site staff. The physical screening is the only thing that can be contracted out, not the whole rest of the process like maintenance of risk databases.

What might confuse things a bit is that this incident happened hours before ICE agents started reinforcing TSA at checkpoints and seems mostly unrelated, other than establishing the general principle that ICE will arrest people at airports based on tips from TSA's flight booking records.

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