A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program
23-09-2026 19:10 via technologyreview.com

A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program

Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the US southern border. The announcement comes just days after publication of an MIT Technology Review investigation, “Dying on Camera,” in which we looked at deaths along the border that took place close to one or more of these towers. MIT Technology Review found that nearly one in four deaths we analyzed between 2015 a
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