United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is developing a new system to log every person leaving the country by vehicle. This initiative involves capturing photographs of passengers at border crossings and matching these images with their travel documents. Currently, the CBP photographs individuals entering the US, but outbound monitoring is a new step. The motivation behind this system may include tracking self-deportations, although CBP representatives haven't confirmed their intent to use it for this purpose yet. They are still refining the technical aspects of implementation.
"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.
"Not to say it won't happen in the future, though, with the way self-deportation is going," Turner says.
CBP has struggled to do this on its own. The results of a 152-day test of this system are still pending.
The agency currently does not have a system that monitors people leaving the country by vehicle.
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