US citizens should consider deleting all social media before entering US customs immigration at airports and land

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3. And also INSIDE Trump's Totalitarian Regime for US domestic flights

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/5/2314816/-US-citizens-returning-to-the-US-risk-detention-a-social-media-check-by-CBP?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

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I do not find his words reassuring. Dictatorships often come to power by sounding reasonable. When the authorities step up surveillance on the grounds that they are just looking for bad apples, it does not take long for them to suspect an increasing number of people — citizens as well as foreigners — of being bad apples. And to cast an increasingly wider net to find them.

It gets worse.

It is not just returning from abroad that might put the citizen in the CBP frame. The 'border' agency is now questioning citizens on domestic flights landing nowhere near a border. Rolling Stone reported in February that soon after Trump announced his massive expulsion effort, passengers on a domestic Delta flight from San Francisco to New York were told to show their identity documents to uniformed agents of the CBP upon their arrival at JFK airport.


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Let's be honest. How many people faced with a uniformed federal agent carrying a gun asking to see their papers will refuse to do so? There is legal compulsion and situational compulsion. Hell, what if you are in a hurry and don't have time to claim your rights? The agent is on the clock. They are getting paid to harass you — while your wasted time is uncompensated.

Most people will just show their documents. That is how fascism spreads. The citizens get inured — like the frog in slowly heating water — to an ever-increasing assault on their civil liberties and privacy.