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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to begin collecting photographs of everyone leaving the US for Mexico or Canada by car. The photographs will then be matched to the images in the passengers’ passports, visas, or travel documents.
Jessica Turner, a representative from CBP, did not offer a schedule for when this will start.
told
Wired
that the agency is “still figuring out how we would manage outgoing vehicle lanes.”
Turner did not specifically mention that the facial recognition program is designed to monitor self-deportation by individuals who are undocumented, an effort that the Trump administration has supported.
encouraged
, but she didn’t rule it out either. Photos will be used to verify later crossings into the US.
This announcement coincides with Homeland Security authorities increasingly relying on technology to manage border entries.
Wired
reported earlier this week that CBP
is soliciting pitches
from tech firms about
how to implement
A real-time face recognition system capable of instantly capturing images of all individuals within a vehicle, even those seated at the rear, and then cross-referencing these with their official records.
CBP mentioned they are presently utilizing a similar facial recognition system at various U.S. air, sea, and pedestrian entry points. However, their aim is to implement this kind of technology into “land vehicle environments” as well.
In the meantime, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lately
signed a $29.9 million deal with data analytics giant Palantir
to create a new system called ICE Immigration Lifecycle Operating System, or ImmigrationOS, to assist in “targeting and enforcement prioritization, ” such as arresting migrants who overstay their visas or are members of criminal gangs.
