Reminds me of doing civil disobedience -- you write your attorney's phone number on your arm beforehand.
Right, people have attorneys. Very common thing ... nowhere?
[Lawyer, Passport, Locksmith, Gun by DeviantOllam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI)
By the number of people asserting that this sort of abusive from border patrol agents runs rampant and people just need to be ok with being deported when trying to lawfully enter the US, what leads you to believe that lawyering up in preparation to enter the US is unheard of?
To read me as somehow condemning the woman in the original story seems pretty willfully bad faith.
in this case, this one did, yes. It seems like this will be more common after this incident.