The article is about a non-citizen and you made a statement of ending the searches.
Clarify. Or don’t.
Clarify. Or don’t.
If you have read my prior posts in this thread, I think I have clarified, but I will do so again for your benefit.
The same rules apply to returning citizens, and I don't believe that forcing someone to unlock their laptop or phone for inspection of its contents is necessary to keep the United States secure.
What will be next? You must enumerate and unlock all social media accounts to inspect them for "suspicious ties to terrorism?"
This is a direct outgrowth from the post 9/11 Patriot Act mentality where privacy rights are trampled in the name of security, when it has been shown that not a single terrorist attack has been thwarted by examining one's iPhone at a port of entry.
In this day and age, if one wants to smuggle kiddie porn or bomb making instructions into the United States, all they have to do is to put it on a server somewhere and download it when they are in the U.S.
So if the process doesn't make any difference, then why give the government the authority?
The whole process is ripe for abuse, as we are learning how the FISA courts were abused to spy on then candidate Trump.