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.

  • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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!