A video clip from a lawyer for immigration that provides advice on the rights enjoyed by American citizens and visa holders if it stops through customs in airports in Tiktok, which increases 8 million views.
the After the New York -based immigration lawyer Brad Bernstein In the wake of the accounts of Tiktok users who say they are American citizens, they were arrested for hours and their phones or luggage were searched upon entering the country. Videos are shared – Twist Streamer Hasan Piker details about stopping and interrogating Chicago Ohair International Airport – many wonder what to do and what rights they enjoy if they are detained by American customs officials.
Bernstein said that one of the biggest questions he hears is whether all constitutional rights are protected during CBP offers.
“The Supreme Court ruled that the constitution is not applied until the United States of America entered,” said Bernstein. “Although you are physically in the United States at the airport, you do not consider that you entered the United States under the Immigration Law until you pass through immigration and customs.”
The legal analyst of NBC News Danny Cevallos explained that the Supreme Court has seen that “routine searches on the border do not require a possible or even reasonable cause, reason, due to the interest of the government inherent in protecting its regional safety.”
Bernstein said that individual protection relies heavily on the state of nationality for the traveler, and that those who have visas or green cards have less protection.
“The American citizen should be allowed to return to the United States,” Bernstein said.
He said: “There is a much lower level of the constitutional authority at the airport, in exchange for merely roaming locally in our streets, where the fourth amendment of illegal research and confiscation will be applied.”
Statistically, advanced searches are rare, but it is important to plan for the future.
Travelers who want to protect their privacy through CBP should only take very necessary electronics when traveling, recording the exit from the services based on the groom and consider taking a secondary phone when going outside, as he advised.
Above all, although these searches can be frightening, it is better to remain calm and say the truth. “The more you say, the more questions you will get. The more you will be at the airport,” said Bernstein.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, American citizens do not need to hold a sign of citizenship with them in the country.
“If you have valid immigration documents and are more than 18 years old, then the law requires you to carry these documents on you. If one of the immigration agents ask you to produce them, it is recommended to show the documents for the agent or risk arresting him,” ACLU reads.
The creator of Tijook Savana, who says she is an American citizen born in the United States, said she stopped and interrogated by CBP for more than two hours at an airport in Miami. She received her video on the meeting More than 2 million views On Tiktok. In it, customs officials describe the social and repeatedly ask the socials about the amount of money that you earned daily on Tiktok.
“I was traveling outside the country and I never faced this problem,” she told NBC News. “But the only thing that has changed between February and now, or February and April, is that I created” Trump to unload. “
Savana said the line is a brand for satirical clothes that she created with the intention of donating profits for the humanitarian reasons.
Ministry of Internal Security Savanna’s video was republished on X She said she did not stop for political reasons.
The Ministry of Public Security said in a statement: “Legal travelers do not have anything that they fear from these measures, which were designed to protect the security of our nation,” adding that “political beliefs lead to inspection or removal operations that are not necessary and not responsible.”
DHS said Its data He explains that the total border searches have increased since last year, but advanced tests have decreased slightly.
Cevallos referred to a recent federal issue that determined that “basic” electronic search operations on the constitutional borders. “This has been criticized as an explanation for the fourth amendment that threatens the interests of the privacy of individuals on the border,” said Sevalos.
Piker, the banner and American political critics known in Twitch as Hasanabi, said he believed that he had stopped by CBP on his return from France on May 11 because of his political views, a reason about DHS as well.
“I was invited to the back room to wonder about my views about many different things from Donald Trump to Israel, Palestine,” NBC News told NBC News.
Baker said he was not surprised when he was asked to step down by agents.
He said: “I knew this would likely happen because I heard a lot of reports about this immigration lawyer and even Tiktokers and the things that said negative things about Donald Trump.”
” Posted on X This Piker was lying for “likes”
“I thought it was really funny that they admitted it had happened.” “The parts they forgave that I think this is very evil is that this is a recognition that people’s question about their loyalty to the current administration or their opinion in Israel and the balls is part of the routine investigation? Because there is nothing routine about that at all. It is not related to my entry into the country as an American citizen.”
