Complaints mount over phone searches at US border

Washington

THEY spoke of being humiliated and shaken. They described being "made to feel like a criminal". And they maintained that their rights had been violated.

Grievances over lost privacy run through a trove of roughly 250 complaints by people whose laptops and phones were searched without a warrant as they crossed the US border. Filed with the Department of Homeland Security since 2011, mostly during the Obama administration, these stories add a personal dimension to a growing debate over rights, security and technology.