Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
Source: Associated Press, via ABC News
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious
By BYRON TAU and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press
November 20, 2025, 12:14 AM ET
• 21 min read
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. ... The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.
Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over — often for reasons cited such as speeding, failure to signal, the wrong window tint or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.
Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects. Started about a decade ago to fight illegal border-related activities and the trafficking of both drugs and people, it has expanded over the past five years. ... The Border Patrol has recently grown even more powerful through collaborations with other agencies, drawing information from license plate readers nationwide run by the Drug Enforcement Administration, private companies and, increasingly, local law enforcement programs funded through federal grants. Texas law enforcement agencies have asked Border Patrol to use facial recognition to identify drivers, documents show.
This active role beyond the borders is part of the quiet transformation of its parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, into something more akin to a domestic intelligence operation. Under the Trump administration’s heightened immigration enforcement efforts, CBP is now poised to get more than $2.7 billion to build out border surveillance systems such as the license plate reader program by layering in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. ... The result is a mass surveillance network with a particularly American focus: cars.
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Yes, that zone includes ALL of the border with Canada, and ALL coastlines, Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico. And, people, the laws are different within that border zone where most Americans live. Get used to the idea of stops, seizures, even federal agents tearing your car apart then leaving you in the inspection lane to put your car back together again yourself.
Sounds fun, doesn't it? 
When this is over, 2028 or sooner, we really shouldn't waste time and tax payer money on Nuremberg 2. We need to just use the tyranny and excuses the trumpers used for 4 years and simply jail them all, no trials, for life...along with any who supported them!
Before you say we're not like that, sorry, we need to be this once so it never happens again. And if any of you feels we should turn the other cheek, go high when they go low, or any other such cliche that tries to show sympathy or empathy for those who caused or supported these times, you need to move on from your pious attitude especially if you didn't suffer from these years because you were much more fortunate than others.
Never been a bleeding heart liberal but enough of this is too much.
Not a religious person, but to properly paraphrase what the supposed son of a god professed when he said to turn the other cheek, he never said you could lay the bastards out AFTER you turned the cheek. It's time to strike back.
These "people" aren't human. They must be treated the way they do, did and will treat any of us.
This must be the new, never forget!
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I've watched too many police bodycam videos like these to believe that they merely "get lucky" when finding big-bucks volumes of contraband in vehicles stopped for the most inconsequential of traffic offenses. The cops already have the drop on them -- from snitches, undercovers, banks, the Feds, car/truck rental agencies -- and now I can add algorithms to the list!
I love the smell of vindication in the morning.
Rocknation
