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"Everybody is vulnerable": Your eroding rights at the border under Trump

ACLU's Nathan Freed Wessler warns that the administration keeps "walking up to the line, up to the edge, and then walking a little back" — but for how long?

Carla Sinclair
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Mark Frauenfelder
Aug 01, 2025
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Nathan Freed Wessler, Deputy Director, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

This is the final part of our three-part series on protecting yourself at U.S. borders, based on our interview with ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. In Part One, we covered your rights when CBP agen…

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