US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car - Wired

[justaprogressive]

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.

“Although we are still working on how we would handle outbound vehicle lanes, we will ultimately expand to this area,” CBP spokesperson Jessica Turner tells WIRED.

Turner could not provide a timeline on when CBP would begin monitoring people leaving the country by vehicle.

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-face-recognition-exit-us-border/

[Walleye]

1. Big example of government inefficiency

[cbabe]

2. Already checking, for what they won't say:

https://globalnews.ca/news/11164618/additional-checkpoint-bc-us-border-shocks/

Travellers crossing the U.S.-Canada border at B.C.’s Peace Arch crossing faced an additional checkpoint when returning to Canada last Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

(Frog meet warming pot)

[Historic NY]

3. Concept of a plan

“Although we are still working on how we would handle outbound vehicle lanes, we will ultimately expand to this area,” CBP spokesperson Jessica Turner tells WIRED.

They don't tell you how successful the inbound program is either.

[orangecrush]

4. Welcome to the new "Iron Curtain"

[haele]

5. That's going to really suck here in San Diego...

A lot of US citizens cross the border regularly as well as Mexican citizens with Work Visas.Some medical practices are cross border; doctors, dentists, and veterinarians often save costs or make better money by splitting days or weeks between a San Diego and Tijuana office; a significant number of working US citizens live in Tijuana because it's cheaper, and other than a couple infrastructure issues, there's not a lot of difference in terms of quality of life between the US and Mexico - depending on where you live.

Also, Generations of birthright citizens with Hispanic names have lived cross border and off and on depending on border policy, there are siblings where one was born in the US and one born in Mexico, where the parents were both US citizens or a mix of citizen and legal resident.
For instance, my next door neighbor and his father were born here, but his younger sister was born in Mexico because their parents were down there visiting extended family on both the paternal and maternal side for a month or so (his mother has a green card). And he has a couple second cousins who still own a fishing/tourist charter company his grand-uncle started in Monterey, California during the depression.
So, according to this new DHS policy - if he wants to visit his cousins in Oaxaca to get some family made mezcal for his own use (and Christmas gifts) or see his dentist who splits a practice between San Diego and TJ on a TJ day, is that now a crime?
Could I get on a watch list - or be arrested - if I decide I want to see my dentist at his TJ office for three implants because it's cheaper in Mexico without insurance than it is with insurance in the US and I can have the work done there spread over two months there instead of spreading it out over three years?
Quite the problem.

[hunter]

6. They've been photographing cars leaving the U.S.A. for a long time.

Years ago my brother stuck his arm out the window and flipped off the U.S. border cameras as he was driving into Mexico. When he returned a few days later they pulled him aside and took his car apart.

He was detained about 16 hours and it took him a few more hours to put his car back together.

I blame my mom and her mom. They didn't generally have a lot of respect for law enforcement.

Fortunately I took after my dad who was always the gentleman in his encounters with the police. That kept me out of a lot of serious trouble as a young man. If I'd been a black guy who responded to the police as my mom or my grandma did I'd probably be dead.