4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

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MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas surveilled by advanced, AI-enabled towers and later died nearby, where their bodies remained unnoticed for… MIT Review issued this as an official post on 2026-09-21. The desk files the title and summary from the allow-listed official source, not a rewrite.

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MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along… That is a public note from MIT Review, dated 2026-09-21.

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• MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border.