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Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

Listen to the session or watch below 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.

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Listen to the session or watch below 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.

The short version

  • But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who…
  • Our findings reveal a humanitarian crisis more visible than previously known, and repeated failures of the virtual wall’s basic security promise.
  • Watch a conversation examining the failures of border surveillance technology and uncovering the stories of the people who die in the borderlands.

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