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Being an old straight white male I'd almost certainly be fine, unless US customs decided to go through my woodenboat forum posts.


Expect extra questions, take a burner phone: Immigration lawyers weigh in on travel to the U.S.

Lawyers say they're fielding plenty of questions from those fearful about travel south of the border

...Segal [also] suggests people travel with a burner phone and leave their actual phones at home.

U.S. customs officials can look through a mobile phone, check comments made on social media and look through a laptop, she said. They can also take devices or download all of their contents, she added.

"To protect yourself, more so now than ever, I think it is a great idea to take a burner phone, to not take your technology, to not take anything on your technology that you would be afraid of any government entity knowing or having," she said.

"The concept of privacy is completely different when you enter the United States."...Segal recommends Canadian travellers to the U.S. leave from an airport where they can clear U.S. customs while in Canada. She said going through "preclearance" affords Canadians rights while they are on Canadian soil.

"You might be detained for questioning, but you can say at any point, 'You know what, I don't want to travel anymore.' And as long as you tell them that you're just not interested and give them a good reason, you can leave. And they cannot keep you. You're not on U.S. soil."

Canadians can be detained at a land port of entry when going through U.S. customs, however, because they are on U.S. soil and they do not have the same rights that they would have in Canada, she said.​ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...vice-1.7498326

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