Why is homeland security tracking people online who use the word illegal immigrant?

[Chief Whachusa]

Why? (in part)

"[Federal Register: February 1, 2011 (Volume 76, Number 21)]
[Notices]
[Page 5603-5606]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr01fe11-76]"

....."SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of Homeland Security is giving notice that it proposes to establish a new Department of Homeland Security system of records titled, ``Department of Homeland Security Office of Operations Coordination and Planning-- 004 Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative System of Records.'' The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) National Operations Center (NOC), has launched and leads the Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness (Initiative) to assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components involved in fulfilling OPS statutory responsibility to provide situational awareness.".....
....."For example, in the event of an in extremis situation involving potential life and death, OPS will share certain PII with the responding authority in order for them to take the necessary actions to save a life, such as name and location of a person calling for help buried under rubble, or hiding in a hotel room when the hotel is under attack by terrorists.".....
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2011/2011-2198.htm

If you skim through the above and below information you will find Me's answer to hold more truth than you might think.

"EPIC Urges FTC Investigation into Facebook Timeline"
"EPIC Submits Comments on FTC Facebook Privacy Settlement"
"EPIC Urges Court to Order Disclosure of CyberSecurity Authority"
"EPIC Sues DHS Over Covert Surveillance of Facebook and Twitter "
http://epic.org/

About those "key words", here is a pdf copy of the notice Department of Homeland Security put out notifying that it would be monitoring social networks. If you want to read what I see as "paranoid" just read the last five pages of "key words'
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/images/b...update.pdf