Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

Watch a subscriber-only conversation examining the failures of border surveillance technology.

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The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who moved through areas watched by these towers without being reached or apprehended, and who…