Journalist says CBP withheld passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’
Is anyone else concerned about the changes to the CBP officer population over the last few years?<p>The priorities of the current administration have allowed the organization to rapidly balloon in size. Those of us who have worked at fast growing startups are aware of how quickly the character of an organization can change when it doubles or triples in size too quickly. And then the kind of person who wants to be a CBP officer in this political climate is... possibly worrying?<p>Will the next adminstration try to purge this organization? Will they even be able to? Are we going to be stuck with a dramatically more authoritarian customs organization for the next few decades?<p>I&#x27;m moderately concerned.<p>As a meta-addition to this comment, self-censorship is absolutely real here. I normally interact online using my real name, but obviously that seems a little more fraught when there&#x27;s a real possibility that your comments will be thrown back at you when you interact with a customs officer at an airport. &quot;You clearly don&#x27;t like customs agents. That probably means you&#x27;re hiding something&quot; etc.