• SaturdayMorning@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      7 days ago

      This. I personally have no plan going to usa now and in the future. Unfortunately some Canadians may still have to go for work related trips. Just be aware that you may or may not need to register in the new “Alien Registration Requirement”.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        17·
        7 days ago

        Just be aware that you may or may not need to register in the new “Alien Registration Requirement”.

        And if you choose wrong, they might lock you up in a detention center concentration camp.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 days ago

      They’re a scientist. Science is pretty international and often involves travelling to all sorts of countries for conferences with other researchers in your field.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        6 days ago

        not to US now, that is became pretty anti-science. stems is already suffering in many areas before trump was elected, he just made things worst.

  • ravelin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    37·
    7 days ago

    There’s something ironic about reading this with a Home Depot (huge Trump supporter) ad embedded in it.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        14·
        7 days ago

        Soon, you’ll need it to fly domestically.

        They actually set this up pretty far in advance though. For instance, I’m from Texas, where any IDs issued since October 2016 are complaint. It’s impossible for me to have a current ID that’s non-compliant.

        So from my perspective there won’t really have been any changes since 2001 in my flying experience.

      • LordCrom@lemmy.world
        61·
        7 days ago

        Afaik, your state Id or driver license is your legal identification. And states honor the IDs of other states.

        I refused to use id.me to get unemployment insurance because I don’t want a private 3rd party having that info plus a face scan.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
        1·
        5 days ago

        I don’t know, all I know is that my driver’s license is already compliant with that, I think. All I had to do is bring a few extra things to the BMV when I renewed the license. I didn’t really think much of it at the time but it’s one of those things that’s nice to have and didn’t really cost too much extra.

    • freely1333@reddthat.comEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Ngl China didn’t touch my phone upon entry. Think my iris got scanned though and certainly got full palm printed.

      • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        One of the two people I know who have been to china had their phone taken for hours when they arrived. The other person reported much the same experience as you. The friend who had her phone taken was a US citizen but born of Chinese immigrants. The other who didn’t get their phone taken was not. I can’t help but think that her parents status there had something to do with.

        • Jamablaya@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 days ago

          That one born of Chinese immigrants would have been considered a citizen of China by the guards, not of the USA.

  • newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml
    262·
    7 days ago

    That’s not news. The US has for a long time reading/copying contents of electric devices at the border

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      25·
      7 days ago

      They never asked to see my phone at the border. But the last time I crossed they were getting a hell of a lot more aggressive. They got less aggressive when I became a Canadian citizen, but when I only had my Lebanese passport they almost always brought me in for more questioning. It was kinda bizarre. They probably aggressively searched my luggage, but I can’t be sure of that.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        281·
        7 days ago

        They got less aggressive when I became a Canadian citizen, but when I only had my Lebanese passport they almost always brought me in for more questioning.

        This but with passport origins instead of skin color.

      • SaturdayMorning@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        7 days ago

        My checked luggage used to be searched when I went to usa. I knew it was searched because tsa would leave a pamphlet inside my luggage saying that it was searched. I believe they have stopped leaving such pamphlet but I won’t be surprised if they still search luggages.

        • rxbudian@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I used to get “randomly” searched every time I fly in the US until I was sent to the side room for more extensive search and interview.
          After that I never got randomly searched anymore whenever I go through the airport.
          I think once they know everything and judged that I’m not going to be a problem, I stopped getting flagged.
          From the news, this time feels a bit different.
          Unfortunately I’ll avoid crossing the border until things settle down in a few years. I don’t want to get whisked away by ICE for looking at someone funny

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      7 days ago

      While technically true, they weren’t kicking out foreign visitors for being critical if the president.

      I used to train people in a specific culinary technique, and i had clients from all over the world, including Muslim clients from the Middle East and India. Most had no problem visiting, but one was stopped at the border and heavily grilled.

      His visa said he was here for vacation and educational purposes, but when they went through his texts, they determined that he was here for business purposes, and threatened to confiscate his cash, and reject him from entering the country.

      After a few hours, he eventually convinced them that he had considered his training with me to be educational rather than business for his visa, and it just an honest mistake, with no nefarious purpose, and was finally released so he could visit me, and get his training.

      This was about 10 years ago, and I don’t remember who was president. It was either Trump or Obama.

    • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
      71·
      7 days ago

      Bingo. If anything, use of a burner phone will be purposely misconstrued as “suspicious”, and used as justification for more thorough screening.

      “You just got it last week? That’s weird, we usually only hear drug smugglers using new phones. You’re not smuggling fentanyl, are you? OK, so you won’t mind if I take a look through your luggage to be sure, right? Maybe I should send you to secondary screening for an x-ray.”

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
        7·
        7 days ago

        I got a secret for you. Grapheneos has a duress password feature, if you type it in, it completely wipes the phone. Give them that password and act surprised when the phone shits itself

        • dev_null@lemmy.ml
          6·
          7 days ago

          That will accomplish you preventing them from seeing the contents of your phone. It will also accomplish you not getting past the border. At best.

          • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            41·
            6 days ago

            That reminds me. I’m always bad at handling my stuff, and my stuff always break. Like imagine I just go cross a border one day and they demanded to see my phone, BUT my phone legit just stops working because I spilled coffee on it this morning and it decides to stop working RIGHT NOW, not earlier or later, but just as when I take out the phone, attempt to type in the real password, boom, screen goes black because it actually got liquid damage…

            Like… that would be so… awkward…

            I’m gonna look like a criminal lol

          • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            5·
            7 days ago

            If you’re genuenly worried about your security it makes sense, the average person however doesn’t care so they wont do anything to increase security

            • cmhe@lemmy.world
              71·
              7 days ago

              TBH, buying a cheap Chinese burner phone with no security relevant data on it just for traveling to the US, might be better security wise than buying an expensive Google Pixel Phone with GrapheneOS on it.

              Especially now where Google, a US company and bound by its laws, that produces these devices, might (start) hand(ing) out backdoor keys to their hardware.

              • Onsotumenh@discuss.tchncs.de
                2·
                6 days ago

                But with Graphene&Co you can make full backups, store them externally (e.g. selfhosted cloud) and then just apply before/after crossing borders as needed. Plus doing that makes a duress wipe way less painful if you ever need to. Tho, if you’re somewhere where they’re likely to just keep it instead of forcing an unlock or copying data, a cheap burner that doesn’t hurt to loose is still the better idea…

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        7 days ago

        That is a good option. I am actually quite careful about what I use my phone for. I still on occasion use Google maps, but i turn location history off and I always delete previous searches.

        I am aware that this does not remove them from google’s database, but it does make your movements not immediately obvious.

        Also i would delete browser history and log out of all social media accounts (and disable remembering usernames/passwords) and even uninstall some apps in order to make who you interact eith less immediately obvious. Once you clear the border fully you can reinstall everything at your earliest convenience.

          • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            I also have osmand. At any rate I wish I could uninstall Google entirely off my computer. My dad was the one who made my gmail account back in 2005 (when it was invited only, if you can believe/remember that), and I have been using it for all my governmental and important stuff since. I have plenty of other emails, but most of them are for inconsequential stuff.

    • Jamablaya@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      It’s fine, same as it always was crossing the border, just don’t fuck around lying to border guards or announce you’re taking bookings for tattoos this week in Seattle on Instagram. Basically the news has decided to publicize this shit like it wasn’t happening 2 months ago either, same as how they focus on “kids in cages” only when a republican is president or plane crashes that 2 weeks there.

    • Maple Engineer@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      4 days ago

      I had to go for work. I have a Nexus card and traveled very low key so I didn’t have any issues. I’ve told my company that I’m not interested in traveling to the US unless absolutely necessary. I have the advantage of being a white man in my late 50s.

  • Jamablaya@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    Don’t keep anything incriminating on your phone, yeah american border guards but also the fucking RCMP likes to grab phones.