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

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.