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Reason
J.D. Tuccille

One-Third of Expensive Border Surveillance Towers Don't Work

Immigration is one of the more hotly debated issues in the U.S. even as the current administration lacks a clear policy of any sort. We have deep disagreements over how tightly entry to the country should be controlled and who should be admitted as new residents and possible future citizens. But what if, no matter what policy politicians finally settle on, it's implemented with the government's usual efficiency and fiscal responsibility? What if it looks like the train wreck that is the network of surveillance towers along the southern border, many of them inert at great expense?

A Network of Blind Surveillance Towers

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