Michigan families deserve to move freely through our own state without being tracked by federal surveillance cameras installed on our roads without public debate. Right now, the Michigan Department of Transportation has a quiet agreement with U.S. Border Patrol's Detroit Sector and Homeland Security Investigations that lets federal agents put cameras on state property — our roads, our infrastructure, paid for by Michigan taxpayers. Most of us had no idea this was happening. Fifteen of your Democratic colleagues just sent a letter to MDOT on July 27th demanding they terminate this agreement, and they're right to do it. This isn't about whether anyone supports border security — it's about whether Michigan state agencies should be handing over our public infrastructure to federal surveillance programs without a vote, without transparency, and without any real say from the people who live here.
Michigan residents shouldn't have to wonder whether driving to work, visiting family, or going about their daily lives is being logged by Border Patrol cameras mounted on state highways. That's not the Michigan I want to live in, and I don't think it's the one you want to represent. I'm asking you to join your colleagues and publicly call on MDOT to terminate its Master Maintenance Memorandum of Understanding with U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations — and to push for a full accounting of what data has already been collected and who has access to it.
Please add your voice to the demand that MDOT end this surveillance agreement and stop letting federal agencies use Michigan roads as tools for tracking our own neighbors.
