They look through your electronics, also your laptop. Didn't take them long to clear me though. But I'm a white Scandinavian and my most recent posts to Facebook were about board games and concerts and most of my mails were in Danish or spam about video games.

I mean, they would probably still have cleared me if they had access to the full story, I'm not that much of a deviant. But take the board game nights as an example. A few of my friends smoke weed at those, and even though I haven't done that for 10 years, it's not something I'd want to be associated with on a social media site that a government trawls, so I make sure to keep that part out of the pictures.

On the other hand if you lack these things that everyone is expected to have, they become suspicious.

Wait, you're saying US customs looked through the contents of your laptop and electronics before letting you through? They checked your social media profiles?

Wait, you're saying that you didn't see these kind of stuff? https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/12/14583124/nasa-sidd-bikkan...

Yes.

This is absurd. As an American, I apologize for my government's lack of hospitality toward you. No country has ever treated me like you were treated by mine, nor would I feel fondly toward any that did.