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Migrants Dying Within Sight of US Surveillance Cameras, Report Finds
Original: "They were as old as 70 and as young as 5. They died in the heat or the cold. But they all died within range of a survei
An investigation by Lillian Perlmutter for MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego documents migrant deaths along the US border, with victims aged from 5 to 70, dying of heat or cold within range of surveillance cameras. The reporting highlights that monitoring technology failed to prevent the deaths it recorded.
Why now: Readers are reacting to new reporting showing that border surveillance technology recorded migrants' deaths without preventing them.
Lillian PerlmutterMIT Technology ReviewTimes of San DiegoUnited States border
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- "They were as old as 70 and as young as 5. They died in the heat or the cold. But they all died within range of a surveillance camera." Lillian Perlmutter for MIT Technology Review & Times of San Diego https://www. technologyreview.com/2026/09/2… · longreads@mastodon.world · 27
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