Re:U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken
by autoexec on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:27PM
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> We just don't particularly have consensus it should be solved.
I think that is going to change as increasingly people see for themselves the negative impacts of unchecked immigration. I fear that most people won't be personally impacted until the worst of it hits (due to climate change) and by then it'll be too late to make the sensible preparations needed to offset the coming refugee crisis.
I'm not a fan of domestic surveillance either, and hopefully we can place limits on its use internally to minimize the impacts to citizens within the US.
Re:U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken
by JumpCrisscross on Monday October 21, 2024 @06:20PM
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> think that is going to change as increasingly people see for themselves the negative impacts of unchecked immigration
Doubtful. Wealthy communities profit from the wage disparity and can afford to insulate themselves from the problem. And the voters most animated by this remain hyper-responsive to performative solutions.
Facial-recognition scan plus rudimentary SIGINT to identify any e.g. cell phones or devices broadcasting a MAC address. I don't like it, less because of what it means at the border and more in that it requires, for step two, doing the same surveillance across the country. But it's not unsolveable. We just don't particularly have consensus it should be solved.