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Harvard Student Deported for Friends Facebook posts

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A freshman planning to attend Harvard (who is named as a minor in the article) was reportedly treated poorly by immigration officials. According to the article:

The 17-year-old, a resident of Tyre, Lebanon, was deported about eight hours after arriving at Logan International Airport in Boston and said in a written statement obtained by the Crimson that immigration officials questioned him for hours and searched his phone and computer.
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The part that pisses me off the most as someone who believes in personal liberties:

The teen, whom The Hill is not naming because he is a minor, said he was questioned on his religious practices and instructed to unlock his devices, according to the Crimson.
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I don't like this practice, but the kid did it still. He's a minor traveling without his parents, as far as I can tell, and didn't have anyone to help him during this entire thing. Then for them to invade his electronics, and kick him out for something people on his timeline post is absolute ********. This has happened before, and was resolved in favor of the students:

Two Harvard graduate students were similarly blocked in 2017 under the Trump administration’s initial travel ban, although they were eventually allowed into the U.S.
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I despise how this is all being handled. To give a kid that's 17, got a scholarship to attend Harvard (have there been Harvard foreign terrorists before?), and worked his butt off to get here such a hard time when all he wants is an education is terrible.
 
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It's the oldest story ever told.

LE ***** something up beyond any repair and then endeavor to mitigate their failure by doubling down going forward.

It doesn't solve anything and doesn't make the clock run backwards, but bunches of folks are willing to sign off on it.
 
BStrong said:
It's the oldest story ever told.

LE ***** something up beyond any repair and then endeavor to mitigate their failure by doubling down going forward.

It doesn't solve anything and doesn't make the clock run backwards, but bunches of folks are willing to sign off on it.
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The invasion of his privacy and not getting him a lawyer, even if he didn't ask for one, is what bothers me the most. It's just a horse **** way to treat someone.
 
plague311 said:
The invasion of his privacy and not getting him a lawyer, even if he didn't ask for one, is what bothers me the most. It's just a horse **** way to treat someone.
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This can happen to US citizens at the border, too. Several people I have worked with would not travel overseas with a laptop for this very reason and some would have a separate phone for international travel.
 
All the more reason to travel with burner phones. And what is the reason to use your phone to browse everything? You have to check your FB page?
 
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All the more reason to travel with burner phones. And what is the reason to use your phone to browse everything? You have to check your FB page?
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Calendar. Maps. Access to email. Corporate communications. Travel carrier delay notices.

You are definitely right though; I'd buy a cheap prepaid smartphone for overseas travel and I either wouldn't log into any social media or other accounts using it, or else if that couldn't be helped I'd throw it away when it was time to board the plane to return.
 
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