Border agents pressured Makled to hand over his cell phone. He refused. After more than 90 minutes of back-and-forth, he eventually showed agents his contacts list. He was eventually released. Makled says he was never given a reason for his detainment.
However, one of his current clients is a student who has been charged in connection to a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Michigan.
I've been through the wringer including shackled, strip searched, locked up with crazy Mexicans, cbp tell me lies until their face turns blue about revoking passports or not being let through into your own country. Don't be like this guy, they will usually give up after locking you up for a day or so.
They knew everything about him already. This was just intimidation.
> they will usually give up after locking you up for a day or so.
If you think that anything about what is happening in the U.S. is business as usual well…
That also means that anything he says that isn’t a perfectly accurate recollection becomes lying to a Federal agent.
The point is you're dealing with a hostile agency that hates Americans. You can't control what unaccountable tyrants do, only what you do.
Attorney client privilege means something, and a different attorney in the same situation would have acted differently.
I don't say this with pride, mind you. But it annoys me to no end when people LARP as if they would be like the ones who helped Jews hide in places occupied by Germany when things were getting ugly in late 1930s. Those people are rare.
You see, it takes a lot of fortitude to stand up to tiranny. You are effectively putting the well being of you and yours on the line. Especially now that I have a child, I am very sure I would look the other way in that scenario, hoping I was not the next.