DALLAS — An immigration attorney lost his constitutional and Administrative Procedure Act challenges against Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement directives that permit warrantless searches of electronic devices entering or exiting the U.S. The lawyer says CBP agents took his work cell, which contains confidential info about his clients’ cases, and copied its hard drive. The APA claim fails because he did not exhaust his administrative remedies: he could have brought constitutional challenges, but instead has voluntarily dismissed them.
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