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The recent spike in searches at the border has mostly been driven by an increase in the last six months. Between April and June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices—which at the time marked a record high for any quarter of the year. However, the most recent figures show this increase has continued: Between July and September, there were 16,173 phones searched, the newly published CBP figures show.
Over the last decade, there has been an uptick in the number of phone and electronics searches taking…
