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California approved hidden cameras that let Border Patrol track you

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 27, 2026
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Federal agents at a California border crossing pulled aside a grandmother and demanded to know why she kept visiting local casinos. She is a lawful permanent resident of the Imperial Valley who’d committed no crime — but her driving habits had been logged by a covert network of over 40 license plate cameras hidden along So…

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