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

• US Border Patrol monitors American drivers’ travel patterns for suspicious activity • Predictive intelligence program uses cameras and algorithms to flag suspicious vehicles • Border Patrol’s surveillance network now monitors drivers in major metropolitan areas

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 ag