{"id":60722,"date":"2025-04-08T07:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60722"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:55:44","slug":"detroit-free-press-lawyer-for-u-m-protester-detained-at-airport-after-spring-break-trip-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60722","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Free Press: Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Detroit Free Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/wayne\/2025\/04\/07\/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone\/82978891007\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5PB0ZE0liz72Rb75NG2TSLPWD7bUIm5EZj2xEQ_ctVpjjZKRN0IrUHvzktRw_aem_PyRm1Ws6at0K1h4SOQ1FXQ#iidn78bbi1e7bccbwqbesxh1mmu5wba2\">Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family<\/a> by Tresa Baldas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>A lawyer&#8217;s spring break trip to the Dominican Republic with his family ended on a troubling note at Detroit Metro Airport on Sunday: He was detained by federal agents, questioned about his clients, and asked to give up his cellphone, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Dearborn attorney Amir Makled, who is representing a pro-Palestinian demonstrator who was arrested at the University of Michigan last year, stood his ground. He didn&#8217;t give up his phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m an American citizen. I&#8217;m not worried about being deported,&#8221; Makled said he recalled thinking to himself in the airport interrogation room. &#8220;So, I tell them, &#8216;I know you can take my phone. I&#8217;m not going to give you my phone, however \u2026 90% of my work is on my phone. You&#8217;re not getting unfettered access to (it).'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong> Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/08\/border-cops-try-to-make-an-end-run-around-attorney-client-privilege\/\">Border Cops Try To Make an End Run Around Attorney-Client Privilege<\/a> by Matthew Petti (\u201cDetroit lawyer Amir Makled has confidential client data on his phone. That didn\u2019t stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection from trying to search it.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Free Press: Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family by Tresa Baldas:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-search","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60737,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60722\/revisions\/60737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}