Sentences with phrase «border agent»

The jerk border agent lied and told us one but the sheet we were given over the legal items we could import said 2.

I was in line for about 90 minutes and in front of the border agent for 90 seconds.

There was a misunderstanding between the first border agent that we had talked to when first crossing back in to the US.

Similarly, a harm of extreme sentences is that they are only imposed on defendants exercising their trial rights and ticking off prosecutors seeking a plea (see, e.g., Berger and Wilson and the border agent cases and just about every other out - of - whack criminal sentence).

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Rather than bemoan reactions to the border agent cases, I want to issue a challenge to leaders in Congress: Will anyone in the House or Senate have the courage to use the border agent case as an opportunity to discuss and move forward with needed federal sentencing reforms?

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«What if a border agent sees an attractive woman and decides to go through her phone?

A section of the Customs Act, enacted three decades ago, permits a border agent to examine «any goods» brought back into the country.

While Collins is still riding his breakout performance in Capote (2005), this isn't his first time as a border agent (i.e. Babel).

New York Senator Charles Schumer wants returning veterans to fill open border agent positions.

And given Conor's history would we be surprised if he got into an issue by mouthing off and then threatening a border agent?

Meanwhile, the contingency plans being developed to deal with the expected surge in border crossers include redeploying police and border agents to overwhelmed areas and setting up accommodation such as tents and trailers at ports of entry, said a spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency.

Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016.

Canadian truck drivers crossing over into the U.S. might have to put up with longer lines, as U.S. border agents might work overtime, even though they are exempt from furloughs.

The proposal to collect social media data is set out in a part of the draft regulation that describes expanding the content of so - called «Alien Files,» which serve as detailed profiles of individual immigrants, and are used by everyone from border agents to judges.

Traffickers have also exchanged gunfire with US border agents — several times in 2017 already and, in a well - known incident, in the 2010 shootout that killed US agent Brian Terry.

Once border agents from countries like Germany and Poland have been dispatched there, the project will no doubt be swiftly extended to all other EU states.

The pro-migration Senators» complaints about border agents, deportations, and detention beds come as blue - collar wages are beginning to rise after decades of minimal growth, and as Trump's deputies step up their efforts to deter migration by illegal immigrants and asylum - seekers.

Using sensors, the wall and below - ground structure would notify border agents of the exact location of any tampering in real time.

The problem isn't the immigrants, it's the politicization we're confronting the purpose of which is to give one American political party a strategic governance position while ignoring the reports from US Border agents as to who is coming over the border.

Several Canadians and British and French nationals were denied entry into the United States at the Northern New York border last week after revealing to border agents that they planned to attend women's marches in the lower 48.

Drab airport screening areas and waiting rooms were transformed into chaotic scenes, with lawyers saying that border agents had put pressure on detainees and created an information blackout that left many struggling to discern how Trump's immigration order was being applied.

Last year, Canadian border agents stopped a fly by night rescue called «Save a Puppy» run by a woman named Kim McDonnell that was shipping in sick puppies and kittens into Canada from Aruba while fundraising on Gofundme and pulling in thousands of dollars.

He had hoped to carry a sack of bananas with him to sell as part of his contribution to the «Art Positions» section of that year's Art Basel Miami Beach, but border agents confiscated them.

Why do Libby and the border agents deserve special treatment?

But a new hot - button case — involving extreme sentences for two border agents due to the application of federal mandatory minimums — has lots of Republicans recognizing how federal sentencing can spin out of control.

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Though many may think the very prosecution of the border agents was unjust, the case is so troubling because of the sentences required by federal mandatory minimum sentencing law.

Following up on this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the prosecution and sentencing of former border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean (basics here), this Dallas Morning News article reviews the mounting calls for sentencing justice in the case.

Editorial here from the Houston Chronicle, «Border incident Inflexible sentencing law — not prosecutor — created long sentence for rogue border agents»

Several members of the House are drafting legislation to cut off funding specifically for the incarceration of border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, sentenced to 11 and 12 years respectively.

Under CBP Directive No. 3340 - 049, a CBP agent must first consult with the CBP Associate / Assistant Chief Counsel before searching a device suspected of containing propriety legal information, but it does not further outline the procedures border agents must follow.

The Law Society of British Columbia is calling on the federal government to guarantee border agents will not ask lawyers to provide passwords to their electronic devices when crossing the border.

U.S. border agents can demand access to your cell phone and request your password to unlock your cell phone without probable cause.

In 2017, U.S. border agents inspected more than 30,000 phones and other devices.

Canadians are advised to put their mobile phones on «airplane mode» to protect their privacy, as border agents can not download remotely or from the cloud without giving a reason.

It is recommended that individuals crossing the border be patient and allow the U.S. border agents to do their job.

Canadians may be denied entry to the U.S. if they do not comply with requests made by the border agents.

Canadians should be prepared to turn their phones over to the U.S. border agents, if asked.

Border agents are authorized to perform an «advanced search» by connecting a phone to a hard drive to copy its contents for analysis when the need arises.

In each instance, however, the Border agents found marijuana, not bomb - making materials.

Border agents had also tried to keep parents and children at the same detention site.

For Kerr, the nub was that the defendant voluntary showed border agents the location of the pornography on his computer when they first questioned him.

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We can also assist you in alerting the police so that details of your child can be circulated to the relevant authorities such as all ports and border agents.

All of that out of the way, consider somebody (a US citizen) crossing the US border who, knowing they might be stopped and asked for their password by border agents, set an unusually long password.

In a different scenario, someone (again a US citizen) chooses to instead infect their computer with malware which is programmed to spread to any connected devices (say, if border agents connect USB devices with forensic tools to collect data).

The reason I think these are related is that they are the two most obvious ways that occurred to me one could cause border agents problems with such a search.

The premise I am operating under is that, a), while there are limits to this, border agents can demand passwords to phones, laptops or similar devices, and b), you face annoying to potentially serious consequences (being detained, not allowed to enter the US, and / or having your device confiscated for a period of time or indefinitely).