Fault Lines (March 7, 2017)– In the cacophonous debates about President Trump’s travel bans and his overt hostility to immigrants and refugees, civil libertarians have been quick to recount horror stories about Homeland Security agents doing really terrible things to people trying to come into the U.S. For example, a U.S.-born NASA engineer of Indian descent made news in January after Customs officers detained him until he turned over the password for his government-issued smartphone so that officers could search through it.
Recently Oregon Senator Ron Wyden penned a letter to the Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security calling this