Texas Now Has a Drone Fleet Nearly as Large as the US Border Patrol’s

Besides border surveillance, the state has also deployed drones to surveil First Amendment-protected activities.

https://murica.website/2025/12/texas-now-has-a-drone-fleet-nearly-as-large-as-the-us-border-patrols/

Texas Now Has a Drone Fleet Nearly as Large as the US Border Patrol’s – The USA Potato

"Some of the most picturesque landscapes in the United States can be found along the border with Mexico. Yet, from San Diego’s beaches to the Sonoran Desert, from Big Bend National Park to the Boca Chica wetlands, we see vistas marred by the sinister spread of surveillance technology, courtesy of the federal government.

EFF refuses to let this blight grow without documenting it, exposing it, and finding ways to fight back alongside the communities that live in the shadow of this technological threat to human rights.

Here’s a galley of images representing our work and the new developments we’ve discovered in border surveillance in 2024."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/exposing-surveillance-us-mexico-border-2024-year-review-pictures

#USA #Mexico #Surveillance #BorderSurveillance #BorderControl

Exposing Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border: 2024 Year in Review in Pictures

Some of the most picturesque landscapes in the United States can be found along the border with Mexico. Yet, from San Diego’s beaches to the Sonoran Desert, from Big Bend National Park to the Boca Chica wetlands, we see vistas marred by the sinister spread of surveillance technology, courtesy of...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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The Violent Use of Artificial Intelligence as Border Enforcement; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Chris Burger | KPFA

The intersection of immigration, border enforcement, new technology and specifically artificial intelligence, is racing toward more intense and more violent border enforcement strategies that are fueled by problematic algorithms, that mostly replicate the social and economic systems of power and exclusion that western societies are rooted in. On today’s show, we’ll explore part of how … Continued

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"A new bombshell scoop from NBC News revealed an internal U.S. Border Patrol memo claiming that 30 percent of camera towers that compose the agency's "Remote Video Surveillance System" (RVSS) program are broken. According to the report, the memo describes "several technical problems" affecting approximately 150 towers.

Except, this isn't a bombshell. What should actually be shocking is that Congressional leaders are acting shocked, like those who recently sent a letter about the towers to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. These revelations simply reiterate what people who have been watching border technology have known for decades: Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border is a wasteful endeavor that is ill-equipped to respond to an ill-defined problem.

Yet, after years of bipartisan recognition that these programs were straight-up boondoggles, there seems to be a competition among political leaders to throw the most money at programs that continue to fail."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/us-border-surveillance-towers-have-always-been-broken

#BorderSurveillance #Surveillance #USA #BorderControl #Immigration

U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken

A new bombshell scoop from NBC News revealed an internal U.S. Border Patrol memo claiming that 30 percent of camera towers that compose the agency's "Remote Video Surveillance System" (RVSS) program are broken. Except, this isn't a bombshell. What should actually be shocking is that Congressional leaders are acting shocked.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
EU continues to deliver equipment to Libyan Coast Guard for “#border control and #surveillance.” The coast guard is itself involved in or connected to the smuggling but also push-backs, drownings, shooting at rescue ships, and #slavery. https://www.euractiv.com/section/migration/news/eu-delivers-new-patrol-boats-to-libya-despite-militia-links/ #borders #fortresseurope #bordermilitarization #bordersurveillance #eu #libya @immigration
EU delivers new patrol boats to Libya despite militia links

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Finland building razor-wire topped fence, and adding #surveillance equipment, at Russian border—citing irrational fear of people from west Asia, exposing the easily exploitable racism of #FortressEurope https://www.ibtimes.com/finland-starts-fence-russian-border-amid-migration-security-concerns-3686108 @immigration #BorderSurveillance #BorderMilitarization #borders @geopolitics
Finland Starts Fence On Russian Border Amid Migration, Security Concerns

Finland is building the first stretch of a fence on its border with Russia on Friday, less than two weeks after it joined the NATO military alliance to complete a security U-turn taken in response to...

International Business Times
Deaths at Canada-US border show dangers of new border rules, advocates say—Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and police all but confess the intent of border enforcement is to increase the chance of families drowning in St. Lawrence River https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/advocates-danger-of-closing-border-akwesasne-1.6800685 @immigration #canada #us #border #borders #mmigration #CanadaUSBorder #ircc #rcmp #BorderSurveillance
Akwesasne deaths show dangers of new border rules, advocates say | CBC News

Though no link has been made between the effective closure of Roxham Road and the deaths of two Romanian and Indian families on the St. Lawrence River in Akwesasne last week, advocates for migrants say they expect more tragedies of the kind as increased border surveillance pushes people to take greater risks. 

CBC
Centre-right Greek PM promises to expand Turkey border wall, supposed Radical Left-Progressive Alliance accuses Mitsotakis of pandering to far-right but simultaneously calls for keeping wall and adding more sophisticated anti-immigrant technology, e.g., “night vision cameras and coast guard vessels” https://www.thehour.com/news/politics/article/greece-s-prime-minister-makes-border-wall-an-17871149.php @immigration #BorderSurveillance #FortressEurope #immigration #Nationalism #Fascism
Greece's PM makes border wall extension an election pledge

Greece’s prime minister has promised to extend an existing wall across all of the...

Associated Press