Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
By BYRON TAU and GARANCE BURKE
Updated 11:28 PM CST, November 19, 2025

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.

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[Lovie777]

1. WTF......................

I'll bet they are POC.

[Blues Heron]

2. Land of the free home of the Nazi psychos

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Suspicious to whom?

By what authority and what criteria? This is BP capricious.

[doc03]

4. How long will it be when we have to ask permission to travel out of our home area? nt

[get the red out]

5. EXACTLY

I went to Aldi instead of Kroger on Sunday, I'm f*cked, I hadn't been to Aldi in a month, very suspicious!

[doc03]

7. Why did I drive to Canton Ohio last week, stay overnight and not go to

the Football Hall of Fame? Sounds suspicious, doesn't it.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[leftstreet]

11. +1

[Autumn]

6. It almost seems like they have access to Life360

Interesting.

[HAB911]

8. Flock Camera Network

See where many are located

https://deflock.me/map#map=5/39.825413/-98.591309

Amazon's Ring Partner with Flock
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

[Wuddles440]

10. I believe that several of these "agent's" vehicles...

may possibly have been positioned along the PA Turnpike this past Monday.

[leftstreet]

12. WTF is this costing us?

How many pallets of money are being shoveled to private contractors? And how much MORE money will it cost us when lawyers and courts are sorting out these constitutional issues?

[haele]

13. Shit, we have a friend that goes down to TJ for dental -

And we've been picking him up at the border as often as three or four times a month since June because he doesn't have a car, and an hour and a half Trolley ride can be really painful after fillings or dental surgery.

Going to TJ for dental - or other medical - including veterinary services - is a normal experience for a lot of San Diegans, whether or not they speak Spanish. Hell, lots of dentists and doctors share offices on both sides of the border.

Our friend works on government contracts, no way in hell he's going to risk a TS clearance and a $75k+ a year job for a thousand dollars or so to be a mule.

F*** ICE if they pull people over for "suspicious travel".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Welcome to Piggy's police state