Which I dispute, and was not the point of this thread anyway. That was: what happens at a border crossing?

You cannot have your permanent residency revoked at the border. All that can happen at the border is the border agent can deny you entry.

Only an immigration judge can revoke your permanent residency, and only after a hearing at which you can be represented by counsel. (So, not "instantly.") I'm not sure what schemes the current administration has about new criteria for revoking permanent residency, but I doubt any of them involve "no evidence." They have to be able to convince a judge it needs to be revoked. We have heard about Khali's case from only one side in this discussion.

And another thing: permanent residency status is distinct from the green card that shows you have it. Your green card can expire (after 10 years) but your permanent residency status does not, and will not. You just need to apply for a new card.

If this persists China will simply build more fabs, and more quickly than anyone else. So what if it's old-ish tech, at least they will have it.

Pissing off a border agent may result in consequences, but it's not a prosecutable crime. Obstruction is, and that's what the guy was charged with. And I'm sorry to say that it just might stick in court.

Border agents have been able to conduct searches of persons and their effects entering the country since the first Congress in 1789. The exception to the 4th amendment has been affirmed by many Supreme Courts, dating back to at least the 19th century.

I agree the current branches of government should pay close attention to the US Constitution, but in the case of border searches, the 4th Amendment exception was established long ago, not recently.

Point taken, but Khalil's case is about deportation, not denial of entry. His challenges are in immigration court, not at the border in front of an agent.

You and others in this discussion keep forgetting something: the guy was crossing the border. And yes, that means the 4th Amendment means nothing. Border agents can search without having a warrant or probable cause.

You got a whole lot wrong. The JCPOA was signed on July 14, 2015, was adopted on October 18, 2015, was implemented on January 16, 2016, and was scheduled to be in effect until October 18, 2025.

Nope. The deal said, and I quote: Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.

Now, you may be cynical about Iran's commitment to this statement, but the fact is that they were abiding by it. International inspections mandated under the JCPOA confirmed it. Until, of course, Trump tore up the JCPOA on May 8, 2018, and then Iran was free to start enriching higher than 3.67%. Which they did.

As for what was to happen when the deal would have expired on October 18, 2025 ... well geez, you got me. I dunno, maybe ... negotiate a new one? That certainly seems like a better scenario than ending the deal prematurely, thus leading to the current mess we're in.

In any case, Trump saw to it that 10 years of Iran being monitored for compliance with the agreement was cut very short, and consequences followed.

That was a failure, but the first failure was not recognizing it wasn't ready for a research project either. When they realized it was going to have to be heavy and bulky, they should have stopped and either iterated the design again, or smarter IMO, waited for tech to improve (or push it) and then done another design. OTOH Apple can afford to lose the money...

Glad to hear they are still kicking. I hear there's also some Linux-based stuff now but I haven't seen it yet, I'm afraid I'm not much in the market for new cars.

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What code they are based on is irrelevant. Slashdot still has a very simple interface (I am using it right now, it is still the best interface) which is easy for bots to interface to using the DOM. Whether it's Perl or C# or Ada underneath makes no difference.

The real question, therefore, is why are we still being subjected to this cowardly anonymous bullcrap? This management has turned off AC posting before, and you could say they turned it back on only because post counts tanked, but have you seen post counts recently? It's now horribly rare to break 100.

Slashdot needs a major overhaul, and I don't mean of the code though that will of course have to change. I mean specifically that mod abuse and AC trolling are driving away every serious poster. My thanks to those of you who still remain, but most of you post less and less, not that I blame you. I presume you're here less, too.

He tricked them into doing it, if anything that will work against him. They are allowed to lie to you, you are not allowed to lie to them.

No, they're reasons for denying you entry. Border agents don't have the authority to void your permanent-residency status. Only an immigration judge can do that.

There is a Form I-407 (Record of Abandonment of Lawful Permanent Resident Status) that a border agent may put in front of you. NEVER SIGN IT. Any abandonment of your permanent-resident staus is voluntary. A border agent may not force or induce you to do that, though some might try to trick you into doing so.

Because they're idiot followers and they were awed by an RDF

Yeah but just for protection from the cops