U.S. Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the U.S. by Car
May 10th, 2025“They are locking this place down, and it’s going to be for everyone.”
Via: Wired:
United States Customs and Border Protection plans to log every person leaving the country by vehicle by taking photos at border crossings of every passenger and matching their faces to their passports, visas, or travel documents, WIRED has learned.
The escalated documentation of travelers could be used to track how many people are self-deporting, or leave the US voluntarily, which the Trump administration is fervently encouraging to people in the country illegally.
CBP exclusively tells WIRED, in response to an inquiry to the agency, that it plans to mirror the current program it’s developing—photographing every person entering the US and match their faces with their travel documents—to the outbound lanes going to Canada and Mexico. The agency currently does not have a system that monitors people leaving the country by vehicle.
Has anybody gone through a customs border crossing in the past few years without being photographed by the various cameras aimed at them? Ditto toll booth cameras and street cameras and store cameras? As if all those pics weren’t being collected and used for something before now. The kind of govt we have would not let those opportunities go by but would exploit them the moment they became viable, which was years ago.