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Re: Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents

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Guy folded like a tent in 90 minutes and gave up his contacts. Attorneys talk a big game about remaining silent, but in the end can't even stand up to a 90 minute intimidation session. I've been through the wringer including shackled, strip searched, locked up with crazy Mexicans, cbp tell me lies until their face turns blue about revoking passports or not being let through into your own country. Don't be like this g…

We all know from the Snowden files that they don’t actually need to see his contacts. They knew everything about him already. This was just intimidation. > they will usually give up after locking you up for a day or so. If you think that anything about what is happening in the U.S. is business as usual well…

> They knew everything about him already. This was just intimidation.

That also means that anything he says that isn’t a perfectly accurate recollection becomes lying to a Federal agent.

Re: Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would suck for HN to devolve into politics news. Having a place to discuss and learn about tech topics is important. That's not to say I don't care about the ongoing crisis (I do!). But I have plenty of other places to read about and discuss it. I don't really want it on HN more than once a week, because it will just drown out everything else.

The thing is that sort of thing is relevant, even here on HN. Say you work abroad for a US tech company. Are you at risk if you need to travel to the US for work? What kind of precautions do you need to take?

A (well written) article about the technical side of protecting yourself from border patrol would probably make the front page.
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