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.

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.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    16 hours ago

    As if it weren’t bad enough that most US residents live within 100 miles of the border:

    While the U.S. Border Patrol primarily operates within 100 miles of the border, it is legally allowed “to operate anywhere in the United States,” the agency added.

      • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        8·
        15 hours ago

        And if that isn’t bad enough, international airports count as “borders.” Good luck finding somewhere that isn’t within 100 miles of an airport!

    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      16 hours ago

      Charlotte isn’t in that zone and they’re behaving just like they are in other cities. In shocking news, the guys ignoring laws to do whatever they want don’t care about this law