--- title: 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US... description: An investigation into US-Mexico border surveillance towers found over 1,050 deaths near the towers, with systemic failures including broken equipment,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/4-ways-to-address-the-failures-we-found-along-the-us-border-s-virtual-wall--6c6t9mdmc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall” | daily.dev og:description: An investigation into US-Mexico border surveillance towers found over 1,050 deaths near the towers, with systemic failures including broken equipment,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/4-ways-to-address-the-failures-we-found-along-the-us-border-s-virtual-wall--6c6t9mdmc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6c6T9MdmC.png og:image:alt: 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall” og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall” **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An investigation into US-Mexico border surveillance towers found over 1,050 deaths near the towers, with systemic failures including broken equipment, algorithms that failed to detect people, and agents who ignored alerts. This follow-up piece proposes four policy fixes for Customs and Border Protection: conduct a comprehensive audit of deaths near the virtual wall, fix broken migrant death tracking systems (like BSITS), require accurate logging of when surveillance tech leads to apprehensions, and automatically investigate deaths as potential surveillance failures. The piece notes CBP plans to spend $1 billion to triple the virtual wall's size by 2034, with Anduril as a key contractor, despite years of unaddressed GAO recommendations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The US spent billions on border surveillance. 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