Jeffrey Tucker
informationliberation.com reported…..I was at the Canadian border, headed toward the freedom that exists a few feet beyond the last security check. I was gently waved down a side corridor. Ninety minutes later, I was let go, but not before something truly alarming happened. I’m pretty sure that the Canadian government captured a mirrored version of my smartphone — which pretty much holds the whole of my life. At border crossings, governments have discovered that they can get away with seizing and searching electronic devices from smartphones to laptops to tablets. The reason is that it is standard practice that border officials can ask you anything. Anything at all. You have to answer. They can make you empty the full contents of your brain and check for even the smallest misstatement. You can refuse to answer, but then you can expect detention for untold amounts of time. So of course, you comply.
What did I learn?
Never approach the passport window without being extremely clearheaded about what you are going to say.
Don’t ever reverse your story in light of questioning. Tell necessary truths, but never volunteer unnecessary information.
Put all your digital devices away deep in your bags. Do not pull them out at any point in approaching any border. And if you ever get a secondary screening, prepare to have all necessary information stored in some place other than your live cellphone. Read Article
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Yahoo News Canada reports that the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said tourists from the United States had their passports stolen from their vehicle on Monday night. According to police, the vehicle was broken into on Duckworth Street and the passports, as well as a number of other valuable items, were taken. American bank and Visa cards, […]
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According to todayszaman.com, a state security institution from Russia announced that they are investigating the shooting of Mustafa Ülker, a Turkish shepherd who was shot dead on the Armenian border near Turkey’s Kars province. According to reports, the 35-year-old Turkish shepherd had crossed to the Armenian side of the border to retrieve a lost sheep […]
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According to kyivpost.com, a boat with Ukrainian sailors capsized in Azov Sea on Wednesday evening, when chased by Russian border guards, a source from law enforcement agencies said. Read article
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According to canada.com, Mexican federal and state police have rescued 81 migrants who had apparently been kidnapped and held in a house on the border with Texas. Tamaulipas state authorities said in a statement Wednesday that 39 migrants are from Honduras, 38 from Guatemala, three from EL Salvador and one from Mexico. Read article
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The BBC reports that a Turkish boy has died and another has been seriously wounded by stray gunfire from clashes across the Syrian border. Mahsun Ertugrul, 17, died after a stray bullet struck him in the chest in the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar. The bullets came from the northern Syrian town of Ras-al Ain, […]
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According to news.tj, a well-known Tajik opposition journalist has been denied entry at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports. Officials at the airport told RFE/RL that journalist Dodojon Atovulloyev was asked to buy a ticket to Prague, Czech Republic, the city he arrived from on July 15. The airport officials did not elaborate […]
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Fox News reports that a Massachusetts woman and her six-year-old daughter have been stuck in Brazil for more than a month after police seized their passports as part of an international custody dispute with the child’s father. Shauna Hadden, 33, and her daughter, Ava Machado, have been in Brazil since late May, when they began […]
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According to pravda.ru, a Russian tourist from Barnaul, Leonid Gerasimov, faces up to 12 years in prison for attempting to transport a precious stone across the border of Turkey, his wife Alyona Gerasimov said. Leonid Gerasimov, his wife and their daughter were living near the historic town of Side. One day, during an excursion, the […]
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The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that Malaysian immigration authorities should reverse their decision to deny entry Wednesday to a journalist critical of the provincial Sarawak government, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Clare Rewcastle Brown, who is based in the United Kingdom, flew to Kuching in southeast Malaysia but was served a “notice […]
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