Expect extra questions, take a burner phone: Immigration lawyers weigh in on travel to the U.S. Agents with U.S. Border Patrol have long had the power to ask to search travellers' belongings ...

Have you had your phone searched by a border agent at the U.S. border or left ... Based in Toronto, Sophia Harris covers consumer and business for CBC News web, radio and TV.

Border agents pressured Makled to hand over his cell phone. He refused. After more than 90 minutes of back-and-forth, he eventually showed agents his contacts list. He was eventually released.

Jayapal, ranking member of the House Immigration, Integrity, Security and Enforcement Subcommittee, said there was "no excuse for why agents cannot verify if some of the necessary welfare checks ...

2:05 What Canadians need to know about new U.S. travel rules Canadians have little recourse in the event U.S. border agents seize electronic devices for searches when seeking to enter the country ...

Among the issues Canadians may encounter are demands by U.S. border agents to access electronic devices being brought into the U.S. "U.S. border agents are entitled to search your electronic ...

“The only one with authority to make arrests right there are, under Title 8 of immigration law, was the border agent or HSI agent. It wasn’t police,” Homan said.

including against two U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents by federal prosecutors in southern California. Charges include “transportation of illegal aliens, bringing in aliens for ...

On April, 2025, federal prosecutors charged two U.S. border agents in California. Farlis Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez allegedly took bribes at the San Ysidro Port.

It was quiet on the border. A Border Patrol agent named James Lee was parked in the shade next to a 30-foot fence in Calexico. The windows of his SUV were rolled up, the engine making that noise ...