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Coventina

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Thu Nov 20, 2025, 03:34 PM Thursday

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, 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.

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

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Somebody needs to read the 4th amendment to these fuckers!!!

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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns (Original Post) Coventina Thursday OP
Dont Tread on me, right? SamuelTheThird Thursday #1
Oh they will claim they voted for this newdeal2 Thursday #2
Don't go to Wal*Mart or you might get swept up in a Jade Helm tunnel plot. TheBlackAdder Thursday #3
Jade Helm was pretty successful military operation.. Gore1FL Thursday #6
Effing unbelievable. "Small government " my ass. Diamond_Dog Thursday #4
Great way for the regime to fuck with political opposition orangecrush Thursday #5

Gore1FL

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6. Jade Helm was pretty successful military operation..
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 04:04 PM
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By the end of the first day, American flags were flying over government offices that were now manned by U.S. citizens in the state of Texas!

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