Border Patrol Targets Americans' Financial Records

A previously unreported Border Patrol program called Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT) is reportedly analyzing Americans' financial activity, tying those signals to automatic license‑plate reader data, and passing targets to local police who perform pretextual traffic stops. The practice appears to use parallel construction to hide analytic origins and raises questions about warrants, oversight, and the domestic reach of border security units. — If true, it marks an important expansion of predictive policing into domestic financial surveillance and interagency stop-and-search tactics, with immediate constitutional and oversight implications.