Article 74HQM Returning from a humanitarian aid trip to Cuba, Americans have phones seized at US airport

Returning from a humanitarian aid trip to Cuba, Americans have phones seized at US airport

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Gaby Del Valle
from The Verge on (#74HQM)
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Members of a convoy that delivered humanitarian aid to Cuba were detained and interrogated by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) upon returning to the United States on a charter flight from Havana. Of the 20 US citizens who were pulled for secondary inspection at Miami International Airport on Wednesday morning, 18 had their phones and other devices seized by CBP, with little information given on whether and when they'll get them back.

The group was part of a larger coalition of activists who traveled in waves to Cuba as part of the Nuestra America Convoy, named after an essay by nineteenth-century Cuban intellectual Jose Marti criticizing ...

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