MIT Technology Review investigation into deaths at the U.S. border's 'virtual wall' offers four recommendations
4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
What happened
A MIT Technology Review investigation found systemic failures in the AI surveillance towers that make up the U.S. border “virtual wall”: equipment failures, missed detections, and agents not responding to alerts. More than 1,050 people have died, and the true number may be higher. The U.S. government plans to spend $1 billion by 2034 to double the virtual wall's size, while CBP has never audited deaths near the towers. The report offers four recommendations, including auditing deaths, fixing the migrant-death tracking system, and documenting arrests aided by surveillance technology.
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