{"id":6918,"date":"2017-03-08T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2017-03-08T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:10:04","slug":"pen-america-reports-aggressive-interrogation-of-artists-and-writers-at-us-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artistsunderthedome.org\/malc\/issues\/pen-america-reports-aggressive-interrogation-of-artists-and-writers-at-us-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN America Reports Aggressive Interrogation of Artists and Writers at US Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the court-ordered stay\u00a0of President Trump&#8217;s first immigration\u00a0travel ban of late January, 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2017-trump-immigration-ban-conflict-of-interest\/\">restricting entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries<\/a>, reports of detention and aggressive interrogation of travelers, including U.S. citizens\u00b9, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials\u00a0at US airports were widely reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\">PEN America<\/a>, an organization dedicated to protecting &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/about\/\">open expression in the United States and worldwide<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0reported on March 3, 2017, that writers and artists were being subject to <a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/interrogation-us-border\/\">detention and aggressive interrogation<\/a>, including temporary confiscation of phones, at U.S. ports of entry by ICE agents.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mem Fox, an Australian citizen, was \u2026\u00a0detained for nearly two hours by Customs and Border Patrol officials who reportedly believed she was traveling on the wrong visa, although Fox says she has traveled to the U.S. over 100 times before without any incident. Her interrogation was so aggressive that she said she \u201cfelt like I had been physically assaulted.\u201d ~\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/interrogation-us-border\/\">AGGRESSIVE INTERROGATION OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS AT U.S. BORDER<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether ICE agents will continue this behavior under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/07\/trump_revises_immigration_ban_to_pass_court_muster.amp.html\">revised travel ban<\/a> is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PEN America is hearing from artists, writers, poets, and other cultural and intellectual figures who are newly worried about making trips to the U.S., afraid of being turned away at the border, made to submit to invasive searches of their smartphones, interrogated about their political opinions and religious beliefs, or being subjected to arbitrary tests of their abilities.\u00a0~\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/interrogation-us-border\/\">AGGRESSIVE INTERROGATION OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS AT U.S. BORDER<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are, or someone you know is,\u00a0traveling abroad and has concerns about\u00a0seizure of personal information (i.e., an investigative journalist who might report on activities of potential embarrassment to certain governments, or who\u00a0would be carrying\u00a0their organization&#8217;s private documents or contacts), you might wish\u00a0to evaluate the following\u00a0measures to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/human-rights\/ill-never-take-my-phone-international-flight-again-neither-should-you\">secure your phone&#8217;s contents<\/a> from arbitrary search and seizure.<\/p>\n<p>Visit PEN America on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PENamerican\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penamerican\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/penamerican.tumblr.com\">Tumblr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/PENamericancenter\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>_<\/p>\n<p>\u00b9Detention of US citizens at airports without warrant is allowed because U.S. Customs holding areas are not considered U.S. territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the court-ordered stay\u00a0of President Trump&#8217;s first immigration\u00a0travel ban of late January, 2017, restricting entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, reports of detention and aggressive interrogation of travelers, including U.S. citizens\u00b9, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials\u00a0at US airports were widely reported. 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