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PublishedSeptember 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

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MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas surveilled by advanced, AI-enabled tower
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