Is Your Laptop Being Searched?
By Victoria Neilson on 04/25/2011 @ 02:53 PM
On Saturday, the New York Times featured an editorial criticizing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for allowing airport inspectors to seize laptops, hold them, sometimes for weeks, and search their contents.
Unfortunately, this is a practice we've heard about from some binational couples. It is very disturbing to think that Courts have upheld these warrantless searches.
If you're in a binational couple, you should be cautious about traveling with a laptop or even a blackberry or smart phone; an inspector could confiscate it and use what he or she finds to determine that you have immigrant intent.
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