Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking “advanced AI” technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls.

A CBP presentation for an “Industry Day” summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for surveillance towers along the border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood.

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    The “borders” extend 100 miles inland - from the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, the Pacific, from Canada and Mexico. They’ve also argued that they also extend out from internal “borders” as well - ie, international airports. St Louis, Denver, Indianapolis - congratulations.

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    A great business opportunity for IDF to sell its urban war tech to the USA. LA can be New Gaza.

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    And citizens should use all surveillance and crowdsourcing assets possible to conduct mass surveillance of Border Patrol employees.