Meet 2 U.S. Citizens Detained at Airports: A Police Chief and a Lawyer Who Sued Trump Administration (youtube.com)
‘A growing chorus of people with stories of being detained at the airport since the Trump inauguration.’
Airport inspections are targetting ‘more than just Muslims’ now, they suspect.
Can't they just ‘defund’ airport security? Less staff, more targetted search.
The police chief asked if he was being detained. They told him ‘No, this is not a detention.’ If you're not free to go, that's a detention, isn't it? He was there 90 minutes getting ‘vetted’, but he doesn't know what was in the vetting. They didn't take his phone, but there were signs that prohibited ‘strictly’ use of phones, and also standing up from the chair (another sign it was a detention).
Actually, it's probably good for ‘hi-pols’ to be subject to this kind of treatment, because they haven't seem to care when it happened to journalists, activists, and common people for the past 10 or 15 years. They haven't seem to care that cellphones were taken and scanned or hacked, cellphones of regular people, that devices were seized without any probable cause. ‘It is humiliating ... It makes you extremely vulnerable and you have no idea what is happening to you while it is happening,’ said the police chief. This is a big point, that in an arrest you have a process and you know the process and you can behave correctly, but at an airport it's all secret and not bound by process rules, so there really is no way to react except ‘cooperate’ or 'not cooperate.'
If you read the comments, there is a lot of sentiment, aggressive, against anyone who says they don't want to travel to US and they're glad they're citizens of other countries (like Canada), saying ‘Good don’t come,' and that they're ‘protecting the country’ and ‘making people feel safe.’ Welcome to the slippery slope. Others, of course, were ‘ashamed’ and ‘disgusted’ by the administration and that ‘a culture of disrespect has been established.’