The adult son of Muhammad Ali, the late Muslim-American boxing star and civil rights hero, was detained for hours at a Florida airport by U.S. immigration officials, the Courier-Journal reports.
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Parliament ponders letting US immigration strip-search Canadians in Canadian airports, force them to explain immigration withdrawals
The current pre-clearance rules for Canadians being processed through US immigration at Canadian airports limit the powers of US immigration officials, preventing them from strip-searching Canadians (they can ask Canadian border guards to do it, but if the Canadian guards refuse, they’re out of luck) and giving Canadians the ability to turn around and leave the immigration area, returning to Canada, if they don’t like the way they’re being treated by the US guards.
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How to legally cross a US (or other) border without surrendering your data and passwords
The combination of 2014’s Supreme Court decision in Riley (which held that the data on your devices was subject to suspicionless border-searches, and suggested that you simply not bring any data you don’t want stored and shared by US government agencies with you when you cross the border) and Trump’s announcement that people entering the USA will be required to give border officers their social media passwords means that a wealth of sensitive data on our devices and in the cloud is now liable to search and retention when we cross into the USA.
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Have your devices and social media been invasively searched at the US border? EFF wants to know about it
Justice Department tells Appeals Court to reinstate Trump’s Muslim Ban
Late on Monday, the U.S. Justice Department under the Trump administration urged a federal appeals court to reinstate the so-called President’s so-called “targeted travel ban.” The DoJ said this evening that immediate action was required to protect America from the global menace of terrorism.
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Federal judge orders emergency injunction and restraining order ending Trump's #muslimban
Silicon Valley technology firms meet to plan legal challenge of Trump #MuslimBan
A group of tech firms will meet today to plan the filing of an amicus brief in support of lawsuit to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Muslim Ban.”
Trump’s order was issued on Friday, and restricts immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries in which Trump has no business interests. Adjacent Muslim-majority nations in which Trump does have business interests were left untouched by the ban. Administration staffers took great pains to keep the orders secret from other government officials, and from the public, until it went into effect.
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Jeff Sessions asked Sally Yates in 2015 if she'd say no to 'improper' presidential orders
”Do you think the U.S. Attorney General has a responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something that is improper?,” asked Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-Alabama) in 2015.
“I believe they have an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution,” replied U.S. Deputy Attorney General nominee Sally Q. Yates.
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Selling original art from my graphic novel IN REAL LIFE to benefit ACLU and CAIR
Jen Wang, the incredible comics creator who adapted my award-winning story Anda’s Game for the bestselling graphic novel In Real Life is selling original, 9″ x 12″ art from the book, and the painting above these words, for $250 each — all proceeds divided equally between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American Islamic Relations.
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