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

By BYRON TAU and GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press
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 wh