{"id":18475,"date":"2025-04-12T12:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/pro-palestinian-protesters-lawyer-stopped-and-searched-at-us-border-they-were-going-to-take-my-device\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:38:27","slug":"pro-palestinian-protesters-lawyer-stopped-and-searched-at-us-border-they-were-going-to-take-my-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/pro-palestinian-protesters-lawyer-stopped-and-searched-at-us-border-they-were-going-to-take-my-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protester\u2019s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: \u2018They were going to take my device\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amir Makled says immigration officials questioned him about his phone\u2019s contents. Experts warn fourth amendment rights have been weakened at the border<\/p>\n<p>Amir Makled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he said an immigration official at the Detroit Metro airport asked for a \u201cTTRT\u201d agent after scanning his passport on Sunday. Makled said the expression on the agent\u2019s face changed. He felt something \u201codd\u201d was happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I Googled what TTRT meant. I didn\u2019t know,\u201d Makled said. \u201cAnd what I found out was it meant Tactical Terrorism Response Team. So immediately I knew they\u2019re gonna take me in for questioning. And that\u2019s when I felt like I was being racially profiled or targeted because I am Arab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/12\/amir-makled-phone-search-border-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/85f142aca0ccb66c976fc858206fbdec91ad8ac1\/0_154_1638_982\/master\/1638.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ad47a8812bde9aba6eaacd22a347f727\" title=\"Pro-Palestinian protester\u2019s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: \u2018They were going to take my device\u2019\" \/>Amir Makled says immigration officials questioned him about his phone\u2019s contents. Experts warn fourth amendment rights have been weakened at the border<br \/>\nAmir Makled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he said an immigration official at the Detroit Metro airport asked for a \u201cTTRT\u201d agent after scanning his passport on Sunday. Makled said the expression on the agent\u2019s face changed. He felt something \u201codd\u201d was happening.<br \/>\n\u201cSo I Googled what TTRT meant. I didn\u2019t know,\u201d Makled said. \u201cAnd what I found out was it meant Tactical Terrorism Response Team. So immediately I knew they\u2019re gonna take me in for questioning. And that\u2019s when I felt like I was being racially profiled or targeted because I am Arab.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amir Makled says immigration officials questioned him about his phone\u2019s contents. Experts warn fourth amendment rights have been weakened at the border Amir Makled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/pro-palestinian-protesters-lawyer-stopped-and-searched-at-us-border-they-were-going-to-take-my-device\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pro-Palestinian protester\u2019s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: \u2018They were going to take my device\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}