{"id":62459,"date":"2025-12-11T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62459"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:35:44","slug":"reason-cbp-agents-held-this-u-s-citizen-for-hours-until-he-agreed-to-let-them-search-his-electronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62459","title":{"rendered":"Reason: CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/12\/11\/cbp-agents-held-this-u-s-citizen-for-hours-until-he-agreed-to-let-them-search-his-electronic-devices\/\">CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices<\/a> by Jacob Sullum (\u201cA federal lawsuit argues that the agency&#8217;s policy of perusing travelers&#8217; personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.\u201d). It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pacificlegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chavarria-v.-DHS_PLF-Complaint_12.10.25.pdf\">Chavarria v. US DHS<\/a>, and the relief sought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>A. A declaratory judgment, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 2201, holding CBP\u2019s and ICE\u2019s policies authorizing warrantless, suspicionless searches of U.S. citizens\u2019 electronic devices, embodied in the CBP and ICE Directives, and associated promulgating and implementing materials issued by the agencies, unconstitutional;<br \/>B. An order, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. \u00a7 706(2), holding unlawful and setting aside the CBP Directive and the ICE Directive;<br \/>C. An injunction, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 2202, Federal Rule of Procedure 65, and the Court\u2019s inherent equitable powers, prohibiting Defendants from performing warrantless searches of Plaintiff\u200a\u2019s electronic devices &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices by Jacob Sullum (\u201cA federal lawsuit argues that the agency&#8217;s policy of perusing travelers&#8217; personal data without a warrant or probable &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62462,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62459\/revisions\/62462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}