"CBP told our colleagues at NBC News that the names in the database are all people who were present during violence that broke out at the border in November. The agency also said journalists are being tracked so that the agency can learn more about what started that violence."
There will always be explanations for such lists. And they will always be criminal activity or terrorism. That no such lists were made in the past is always considered irrelevant. That identical circumstances elsewhere produce no such lists is glossed over.
>Lots of flagged comments here...USA collecting information on its own citizens is the biggest question
The biggest question is why so many people are perfectly happy with this along side "press is the enemy of the people" and an arbitrary declaration of emergency. Perhaps by questioning and studying why a population suddenly accepts things they never would in the past, other counties will adjust.
And it's not really a question, it's really just observing another country following the path of Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Venezuela, Philippines, Russia and India all at various stages along the same trajectory.
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If I read the assertions of the article correctly, isn't the issue that the border patrol is collecting information (i.e. acting as an intelligence agency) as opposed to its fundamental mission of protecting the border (which is strictly reactionary to breaking the laws).
Is the issue that border patrol is shifting into new territory as an agency? Regardless of the obvious issues around any USA based agency collecting information on its own citizens, is the biggest question just whether this is legal for them under their charter?
Or, am I misreading the issue under argument here?
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