Not Even U.S. Citizen Attorneys Are Safe from the Regime’s Thought Police

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DOGE v. The Constitution

🔴 UPDATE: April 10, 2025

The Constitution is dying at the border.
U.S. immigration agents detained a Michigan-based attorney, Amir Makled, at the Detroit airport and pressured him to hand over access to his personal phone—knowing full well he was a U.S. citizen and a practicing lawyer. They didn’t pretend it was random. They told him directly: We know who you are. Then they demanded he unlock his phone or risk having it confiscated entirely.

Makled refused to violate attorney-client privilege. So agents told him to write down what information was privileged—a laughable request for a device containing over a decade of sensitive legal material. When he continued to resist, they downloaded his contact list anyway and began interrogating him about specific names.

And just days after this happened, ICE posted—and quickly deleted—a graphic declaring it their job to stop not just people or products, but “illegal ideas” from crossing the border.

Key Developments:

• On April 7, U.S. citizen and attorney Amir Makled was detained for nearly two hours at the Detroit airport by CBP agents while returning from a family vacation.
  Source: NPR

• Agents pressured him to unlock his phone, despite knowing he was a lawyer and the device contained privileged client data. Makled refused, but agents threatened to confiscate his phone unless he turned over his contact list—he eventually complied under duress.
  Source: The Guardian

• CBP later claimed it was a routine inspection and that Makled had given written consent. Legal experts called the justification outrageous, pointing out that this kind of data seizure would be blatantly illegal outside a port of entry.
  Source: NPR

• Days later, ICE posted a graphic boasting that it stops “illegal ideas” at the border, before deleting it and claiming it was an error—meant to say “intellectual property” instead.
  Source: Newsweek

The Real Story: Who Wins and Who Pays the Price?

The Trump regime gets to test-drive its border authoritarianism on a U.S. citizen with no due process—making it clear that even attorneys aren’t off limits when they represent people the regime doesn’t like. Who pays the price? Every American who thinks the Constitution still protects them from government overreach.

🔍 Why This Matters:

This wasn’t about national security. This was about sending a message: We know who you are. We’re watching. And if you step out of line, we’ll come for you too. It’s a warning shot to lawyers, activists, and anyone else daring to challenge power. And it's happening while the federal government toys with the language of "illegal ideas."

🚨 The Bottom Line:

This is not a mistake. It’s not overreach. It’s the playbook. They are normalizing the idea that your rights stop at the border—and testing how far they can go with silencing dissent and erasing due process.

If they can do this to a U.S. citizen lawyer, what makes you think you’re safe?

📌Sources:

• The Guardian: Pro-Palestinian protester’s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: ‘They were going to take my device’

• NPR: Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents

• Newsweek: ICE Deletes Post About Stopping 'Illegal Ideas' From Crossing Border

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