Bloomberg Law
Sept. 13, 2017, 7:12 PM UTC

Trump Administration Sued Over Phone Searches at U.S. Border

By Erik Larson, Bloomberg News

The Trump administration is increasingly allowing federal border agents to seize and search — sometimes violently — the mobile phones and laptops of thousands of U.S. citizens and lawful immigrants as they enter the country, two advocacy groups said in a lawsuit.

The searches at airports and at the Canadian border are being carried out without warrants in violation of the Constitution’s privacy and free speech provisions, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in Boston.

The groups represent 10 U.S. citizens and one immigrant — among ...

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