>Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports.
It sounds like only people and journalists who are covering "the caravan" are being tracked. Not that it makes it any better.
It also seems to have been started very recently, probably under the current administration.
Journalists make up a minority of those being tracked in that operation. Most of those tracked are involved in organizations that encourage and assist illegal immigration, like Pueblos Sin Fronteras and Border Angels. Founders of both of those organizations explicitly encourage illegal immigration, and have been organizing migrant caravans for some 15+ years.
It sounds like only people and journalists who are covering "the caravan" are being tracked. Not that it makes it any better.
It also seems to have been started very recently, probably under the current administration.