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US security agency defends border agents' right to seize laptops

What's this WASHINGTON (AFP) - A key US national security agency on Friday defended the right of border officials to seize laptops from travelers even if they are not suspected of criminal activity, as lawmakers and rights activists slammed the policy ...

U.S. border agents given power to seize travellers' laptops, cellphones

Gadget Buying Guides Poll From The Blog From The Blog... Read More and Discuss News U.S. authorities now have the power to seize travellers' electronic devices, including laptops and cellphones, and make copies of their contents at an off-site location. ...

US visa system goes electronic

Travellers to the US who use the visa waiver programme are being urged to register online from today, ahead of a compulsory scheme to be introduced early next year. The US will dispense with green forms issued to business and leisure travellers on ...

ICE Announces Scheduled Departure Program

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PERM With Joel Stewart

Previous Issues Comment Immigrant Flag Raiser reports 'It has been more than 63 years since Sgt. Michael Strank helped raise the American flag during World War II on the infamous Mount Suribachi and, until Tuesday, he had never officially been ...

US Homeland Security Defends Confiscation Of Laptops At Border

WASHINGTON (AFP)--The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Friday defended the right of border officers to seize laptops from travelers even if the travelers are not suspected of criminal activity. 'Since the founding of the republic, we have had broad ...

Freedom abolished? U.S. border guards get full access to your data

The border search policies that the Department of Homeland Security disclosed, after human rights groups demanded them, entitle officials to detain any electronic devices and documents for examination. This may take place 'absent individualised ...

Ecuadorean businessman drops US asylum petition

QUITO, Ecuador: An Ecuadorean businessman who says he felt 'persecuted' here after his television station was seized has dropped his petition for asylum in the U.S. Estefano Isaias is the owner of TC Television, which banking officials seized last month ...

US Border Agency Says it Can Seize Laptops

By Agam Shah Travelers beware: U.S. agents now have the authority to seize and retain laptops indefinitely, according to a new policy detailed in documents issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. As part of border search policy, government ...

Alarm over US border electronics seizures

THE US Department of Homeland Security has admitted that federal agents may seize a traveller's electronic devices for an unspecified period of time without having any suspicions, as part of its border search policies. Officials may also pass copies of ...

America should put the U.S. Army on border patrol

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US border agents can seize travellers' laptops, phones

US federal agents have been given new powers to seize travellers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post has reported. Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security (DoHS) ...

US agents to seize laptops at border control

US federal agents have been given new powers to seize travellers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods, according to a newspaper report. Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security ...

US demands crackdown by Pakistani government along Afghanistan border

The three-day visit to Washington this week by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Rusa Gilani has set the stage for a violent escalation of the Afghanistan war into ethnic Pashtun Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. Gilani was beset ...

Obama vs. McCain: where they stand on immigration reform

DESPITE the Congress?s failure to pass comprehensive reform last summer, the immigration debate remained at the top of our nation?s political discourse and is now a burning issue for the 2008 presidential election. Both Senator John McCain and ...

US Embassy explains visa system

The Consular Section of the US Embassy in Kingston wishes to correct misleading and inaccurate reports circulating about the Department of States worldwide online visa appointment system and other consular practices. In order to inform and better serve ...

Saying No to Unlimited Immigration

(AXcess News) Washington - As a negotiation coach it is natural for me to view election campaigns conducted between the two candidates for president and voters as a negotiation with multiple agendas, adversaries, and intense decision making. That is why ...

Iowa immigration raid case scrutinized

WASHINGTON Justice Department officials who prosecuted hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested at an Iowa meatpacking plant in May used a government-created 'manual' to speed through guilty pleas, a potential violation of the rights of those detained in ...

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