Trump Administration detained American born scientist coming from South America

[frigidweirdo]

Doesn't it ever occur to the radical left that the fact that immigration authorities detain people including NASA scientists is freaking proof that they are doing their jobs? My 91 year old (Irish) mother in law was detained at an airport when she was confused about the metal detector when it rang on her freaking artificial knee. We all laughed it off after she was released after being ushered into a private screening room. Everything is political to the radical left.

Yeah, sure, how many NASA scientists have invaded the US?

Including this guy....at least 1.

A least, I mean, it might even be 1 3/4s

 

[rdean]

A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

Bikkannavar says he was detained by US Customs and Border Patrol and pressured to give the CBP agents his phone and access PIN. Since the phone was issued by NASA, it may have contained sensitive material that wasn’t supposed to be shared. Bikkannavar’s phone was returned to him after it was searched by CBP, but he doesn’t know exactly what information officials might have taken from the device.

Seemingly, Bikkannavar’s reentry into the country should not have raised any flags. Not only is he a natural-born US citizen, but he’s also enrolled in Global Entry — a program through CBP that allows individuals who have undergone background checks to have expedited entry into the country. He hasn’t visited the countries listed in the immigration ban and he has worked at JPL — a major center at a US federal agency — for 10 years. There, he works on “wavefront sensing and control,” a type of optics technology that will be used on the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.

“I don’t know what to think about this,” Bikkannavar recently told The Verge in aphone call. “...I was caught a little off guard by the whole thing.”

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Of course, we know what Republicans think about science and scientists so is this really any surprise?

NO surprise that you post more garbage.

How is that garbage you ignorant nitwit?

 

[jc456]

It seems this is becoming a police state. They had no right to detain him. They are not doing their jobs. The jobs they are doing has no place in any America I know. This is Trump's America.

do you fly? have you been through security? nuff said.

 

[miketx]

A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

Bikkannavar says he was detained by US Customs and Border Patrol and pressured to give the CBP agents his phone and access PIN. Since the phone was issued by NASA, it may have contained sensitive material that wasn’t supposed to be shared. Bikkannavar’s phone was returned to him after it was searched by CBP, but he doesn’t know exactly what information officials might have taken from the device.

Seemingly, Bikkannavar’s reentry into the country should not have raised any flags. Not only is he a natural-born US citizen, but he’s also enrolled in Global Entry — a program through CBP that allows individuals who have undergone background checks to have expedited entry into the country. He hasn’t visited the countries listed in the immigration ban and he has worked at JPL — a major center at a US federal agency — for 10 years. There, he works on “wavefront sensing and control,” a type of optics technology that will be used on the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.

“I don’t know what to think about this,” Bikkannavar recently told The Verge in aphone call. “...I was caught a little off guard by the whole thing.”

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Of course, we know what Republicans think about science and scientists so is this really any surprise?

NO surprise that you post more garbage.

How is that garbage you ignorant nitwit?

Everything libstains post is garbage.

 

[Interpol]

This story should piss every American off. It shows that our entire national security apparatus is pivoting into wasting its resources being suspicious of all the wrong people while actually bad people are out there somewhere plotting against us.

We're currently more vulnerable to an attack because of this nonsense. It's government run amok in the worst way possible.

If ever there was a country-over-partisanship moment, it's stuff like this.

 

[miketx]

This story should piss every American off. It shows that our entire national security apparatus is pivoting into wasting its resources being suspicious of all the wrong people while actually bad people are out there somewhere plotting against us.

We're currently more vulnerable to an attack because of this nonsense. It's government run amok in the worst way possible.

If ever there was a country-over-partisanship moment, it's stuff like this.

Yeah, like the 9th circus letting all those potential terrorists in.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

This story should piss every American off. It shows that our entire national security apparatus is pivoting into wasting its resources being suspicious of all the wrong people while actually bad people are out there somewhere plotting against us.

We're currently more vulnerable to an attack because of this nonsense. It's government run amok in the worst way possible.

If ever there was a country-over-partisanship moment, it's stuff like this.

This story should piss every American off.

Why?

It shows that our entire national security apparatus is pivoting into wasting its resources being suspicious of all the wrong people

Our entire national security apparatus wasted our resources because of this one guy?
That's at least a million, billion times worse than I feared!!

It's government run amok in the worst way possible.

Courts have upheld customs agents' power to manually search devices at the border

It appears you are mistaken.

 

[miketx]

^ Oh no! Not again!