France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.

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    14 hours ago

    Yep, 12 years of Democrats in charge and none of them did anything to reign in this whole apparatus

    Its hard to actually repeal it. Any politician, republican, democrat, independent, whatever, who does so, and then a terrorist attack happens, they take the blame. That’s why nobody tries. Its not an excuse tho, its just an explanation.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, of course. The patriot act was already written way before 9/11, it was a wishlist and they only needed the right excuse to pass it. It’s something they’d always wanted to begin with (both Republicans and Democrats), and it’s politically not possible to repeal.