A suggestion if you're travelling overseas

[Aviation Pro]

Before returning to the U.S., Fedex your phone to your home address. Pain in the ass, yes, but you don't want some self-important, small penised, high school failure rifling through the contents of your phone.

[rich7862]

1. My advice, do not return to the US until these nazis are in prison.

[lapfog_1]

2. before you travel, buy a burner phone

use it to text friends and family... recipes, dinner plans, birthday greetings...

Let them have this phone on return from international travel.

[alittlelark]

5. That's what I do when I travel - they're cheap.

[spooky3]

8. How does it work? Can you import contacts and calendar?

If not, I think it would be tough to travel without your real phone.

[AllyCat]

10. Do you take a regular camera with you?

[Aviation Pro]

6. Destroy the phone before returning

Even with a burner data can be accessed, indexed and cross-referenced.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Imagine the look on the Ice Gestapo faces when we tell them we don't have a damn phone.

[marble falls]

4. And be sure to take that Maple Leaf patch off your backpack before getting into US control ...

... like you took the US flag off before you entered the EU.

I find velcro very handy.

[zanana1]

7. Also, wear a Canadian maple leaf on your jackets.

[progressoid]

14. No.

Doncha know that Canada is an enemy of the US now!!11!!.

I talked to a couple of Canadians who were harassed by border personnel when entering the US recently. These are people who have lived on the border for years and crossed dozens of times. They have never been treated this way before. One person has was interrogated for 2 hours. She vowed to not set foot in the US until at least 2028.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. Someone

years ago, called it TWPC......Teenie Weenie Peenie Complex

and those TWPC guys are the easiest to spot......if they posses an assault rifle, or a handgun strapped on their waist.........

The most world traveled person I know, is a respected journalist in Europe, and has for over 40 years sewn a Canadian Flag on his pack he carries everywhere.......

[BradBo]

11. I told my wife exactly that yesterday.

[Gore1FL]

12. I'd be inclined to say: 1 back it up, 2Erase everything. 3 Fill it with pictures of penises and Trump.

When the time comes, gleefully hand your unlocked phone to the person asking.

[pfitz59]

13. I'll be in Canada in June

if the border's still open

[wiggs]

15. We have plenty of reasons to be cautious due to TSF, and I see lots of phone suggestions offered...but have we heard of

more than isolated/rare first hand accounts of US citizens without suspected criminal actions commonly being questioned, harassed, or detained at this point? Hundreds of thousands (maybe approaching millions?) of US citizens return each day from outside US borders so I would guess -- based on lack of everyday stories -- that 99.9% of them don't have phones confiscated or get detained. Almost everyone is anxious going through security now but have there been that many serious issues for citizens?

If TPTB are interested enough in my DU posts or small progressive donations, then they already know who I am and what I look like and where I'm going...having nothing to do with my phone. Then we are truly screwed.

If, by mid May, things get even weirder and more citizens come out with jackboot stories we will pull the plug on our short Europe trip but as of now I don't see that we should alter our normal travel habits...in fact, perhaps going on with our lives as before might be a better act of defiance. Similar to going to the recent protests...

I realize of course that there's nothing normal about 2025 and we are stunned on a daily basis...even very worried for a family member here legally but on student visa. And naturally worried/horrified for anyone who has come under the microscope of the authoritarians for no good reason other than name, skin color, lack of citizenship, and/or exercise of free speech.

I'll take my phone and laptop. Until events otherwise dictate which is not out of the question.

[Hekate]

16. Thx to both you and lapfog for the advice

[ancianita]

17. My friends are in Amsterdam and Brussels. I told them to leave all their iPads, laptops & other devices at home and buy

a burner phone over there instead of here, where they can still be tracked while here and once they leave the U.S.
They didn't listen.

The FedEx idea is a good one. Thanks.

[kimbutgar]

18. I don't have an plans to travel overseas until the orange Hitler is no longer president

Thought his reigns of terror I have written on social media negative comments about him. I’m sure I’m on an enemies list somewhere among his goons. I have an adult autistic son and I don’t want to take the chance of him being left alone if something happened to me or his father.

It makes me sad that we have come to this in this country.