Thu
Nov 20 2025
10:59 am
By: bizgrrl
There is now a "mass surveillance network" focused on your car.
You used to have more freedoms.
Now,
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.
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