Image missing.
US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car

Caroline Haskins

created: May 9, 2025, 5:12 p.m. | updated: May 13, 2025, 7:02 p.m.

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 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. When asked, Turner says it’s not currently evident that a purpose of the outbound face-matching system would be tracking self-deporations.

4 weeks, 2 days ago: WIRED