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Alarm over leaked US database targeting journalists and immigration activists

Posted on March 20, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Amanda Holpuch and Lauren Aratani report:

Photojournalist Ariana Drehsler was stopped for a secondary screening three separate times in one week while crossing the US-Mexico border to cover the migrant caravan in Tijuana this winter – unaware that the journey she had taken countless times before was suddenly more complicated because her name was logged in a secret government database.

That database, part of something called Operation Secure Line, listed 59 advocates and journalists tied to the migrant caravan, according to leaked documents obtained by local news station NBC 7.

Read more on The Guardian.

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