And most people never realize that their daily routes are feeding a secret system that decides whether they’re treated as a suspect.

The result is a surveillance dragnet that reaches far beyond the actual border, giving federal agencies (and the local departments they loop in) tremendous power to monitor, stop, and detain ordinary Americans based solely on where they drove and when.

Officers then launch into aggressive questioning or conduct a search, and the driver has no idea the real trigger was a computer program tracking their movements.

Once the algorithm identifies a car, Border Patrol analysts can alert local police. That’s where many people get blindsided: they’re suddenly pulled over for something minor alleged speeding, a turn-signal issue, window tint, even a hanging air freshener.

These devices automatically record the plates of passing vehicles and feed that data into an algorithm designed to flag travel patterns the government considers “suspicious.” Drivers have no way of knowing when or why they were flagged.

The U.S. Border Patrol is quietly operating a nationwide monitoring program that tracks the movements of millions of American drivers, far beyond the border itself.

This “predictive intelligence” system uses a vast network of license-plate-scanning cameras positioned across the country.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If Trump should die before I wake,
I pray dear Lord the news ain't fake