"The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has documented at least five journalists who have been stopped on the U.S. side of the border since December 2018 in the course of doing their jobs covering the migrant caravan. Some have been stopped numerous times, where they are put in situations that could threaten their privacy, reporting processes, and confidential sources."
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The US government is increasingly targeting journalists at the US-Mexico border, Freedom of the Press, Camille Fassett (26 Feb 2019)
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