Can customs and border officials search your phone? These are your rights

McCaskill Gets Firsthand Look at Security Efforts Along U.S.-Mexico Border

A NASA scientist heading home to the U.S. said he was detained in January at a Houston airport, where Customs and Border Protection officers pressured him for access to his work phone and its potentially sensitive contents. Last month, CPB agents checked the identification of passengers leaving a domestic flight at New York’s John F. Kennedy…