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Border Patrol Is Secretly Tracking Americans' Money and Movements: U.S. Citizens Can Be Pulled Over Without Being Suspected of a Crime

Border Patrol badge (Credit: Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Being a U.S. citizen does not appear to protect drivers from a secretive Border Patrol program that analyzes Americans' financial activity, tracks their movements and quietly asks local police to pull them over, even when they are not suspected of a specific crime.

The operation is run through units called Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams, or PITT, according to a new 404 Media investigation. The outlet identified teams operating in the Spokane Sector, along the Canadian border, and the Laredo Sector in Texas, near the Mexican border.

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