I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by ty6853 on Friday May 16, 2025 @11:44AM (#44006813)

Not legal advice but I'm a US citizen and when I've refused to answer their intrusive questions the worst that has happened to me is they imprisoned me, stripped me naked and searched me, got a fraudulent warrant for an internal body search, and then sent me the bill after dumping me at the border when they found nothing.

Enjoy.

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by Exoristos on Friday May 16, 2025 @11:51AM (#44006884)

Can you explain what fraud was used to obtain the warrant?

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by ty6853 on Friday May 16, 2025 @01:07PM (#44007709)

Yes.

They claimed a dog alerted on me. An anonymous dog, handled by an unnamed officer in the affidavit, which was used as 3rd party inter-species hearsay via a HSI officer to the assistant attorney and judge.

A dog did not alert on me. In fact it is against CBP policy to use dogs on a person, they are to be used on your articles.

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by csomar on Saturday May 17, 2025 @09:03AM (#44014007)

I think you posted from a new account for privacy and then mistakenly posted from your original account?

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by smcin on Friday May 16, 2025 @06:59PM (#44010554)

Which entry point was that at, and did you enter by air or land?

In particular if it was entering the southern border by land, I heard CBP behavior is much more aggressive.

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by footy on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:46PM (#44011423)

> and then sent me the bill

wow, what a horrible way to add insult to injury

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by lazide on Saturday May 17, 2025 @03:21AM (#44012622)

Could be worse? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee]

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by Nappes on Saturday May 17, 2025 @01:18AM (#44012211)

Bill for what exactly

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work fo... by dang on Saturday May 17, 2025 @03:21PM (#44016366)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44006758.

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