Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking “advanced AI” technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls.
A CBP presentation for an “Industry Day” summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for surveillance towers along the border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood.
The “borders” extend 100 miles inland - from the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, the Pacific, from Canada and Mexico. They’ve also argued that they also extend out from internal “borders” as well - ie, international airports. St Louis, Denver, Indianapolis - congratulations.
Even without including airports, two thirds of the US population lives within this 100 mile border zone.
Well shit I’m in triple coverage