Border Patrol is monitoring U.S. drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns

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U.S. Border Patrol operates a secret surveillance program using license plate readers to monitor millions of American drivers and flag those with “suspicious” travel patterns.

The network extends far beyond border regions into major cities including Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit, raising Fourth Amendment concerns about dragnet surveillance tactics.

Innocent drivers are pulled over under pretexts like speeding, then questioned and searched with no knowledge their driving route triggered federal suspicion.

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