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DHS wants $101 million to upgrade its border surveillance towers
The department wants a high-tech ‘unified vision of unauthorized movement’ along the border.
Buried in the lengthy budget request is $101 million to upgrade and maintain the network of surveillance towers scattered throughout the borderlands, first noted by The Intercept. Politicians from both parties have long hailed CBP’s vast system, called the Integrated Surveillance Towers, as a sort of virtual wall that allows agents to better patrol the border. In official publications, the agency has described its expanded surveillance network as a means through which it will “bring badges back to the border.” The long-term goal is to create a “more autonomous” Border Patrol through artificial intelligence.
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