The Most Surveilled Place in #America

source: https://www.theverge.com/c/23203881/border-patrol-wall-surveillance-tech

Between 2008 and 2020, ICE and CBP issued more than $55 billion in #contracts for detention, “smart border” #technologies, and #surveillance tools, a report by the Immigrant Defense Project found. The #migrant #smuggling #industry is much more difficult to quantify, but one 2018 United Nations report estimated its worldwide worth as somewhere between $5.7 and $7 billion. The two industries — one licit and one illicit — need each other to function. Both exist because #legal #migration is nearly impossible.

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