#border-surveillance

#border-surveillance

Inside a windowless and dark shipping container turned into a high-tech surveillance command center, two analysts peered at their own set of six screens that showed data coming in from an MQ-9 Predator B drone. Both were looking for two adults and a child who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and had fled when a Border Patrol agent approached in a truck.

The launch of ICERAID.us invites civilians to engage in border surveillance, offering crypto rewards for images, but raises concerns over vigilante violence and humanitarian impacts.

"It is an one-on-one nutshell education about the reality of all the surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border, how it functions, what type of equipment is there and how it's impacting real people's lives at the border," said Matthew Guariglia."