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Clarizza Potoy

'The Government Was Entitled': Trump Border Agents Can Now Search a Traveller's Cellphone Legally

A US appeals court has ruled that border agents in New York, Connecticut and Vermont can manually search travellers’ phones without a warrant or suspicion, though one judge warned against treating all such searches as routine (Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)

A US federal appeals court has ruled that Trump administration border agents may manually search a traveller's cellphone at the border without a warrant, probable cause or reasonable suspicion.

The Second Circuit issued its decision on 17 September in United States v Alisigwe, a case involving a lawful permanent resident whose phone was searched at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York.

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