During the last few months, cutting-edge technology has increasingly made its way to border surveillance, with everything from risk-based facial recognition to surveillance blimps being used by authorities to control ports of entry in the southern border.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been at the forefront, investing $2.7 million on a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles, an artificial intelligence-powered web platform which, among other features, can track different mobile devices' movements in a specific, virtual area without a search warrant or subpoena.
