Saturday Digest Vol. 3, Issue 4

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

Work by Colombian collective Taller 4 Rojo. (Google Images)

Today’s Digest comes to you from Warren, Rhode Island, where the weather is finally starting to feel more like Medellin’s eternal spring.

During my time in Colombia, the Committee to Protect Journalists put out a safety advisory for non-citizen media professionals traveling to the United States which warned of the potential for prolonged questioning at U.S. borders, device searches (i.e. the government demanding access to look through and potentially download information from personal smartphones and laptops), and denied entry into the U.S.A.

I have been held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for “secondary inspection” upon return to the United States on two occasions: once flying into Boston from Amman, Jordan in 2022, when they took, looked through, and returned some of my personal journa…