The militarized automatization of the United States’s southern border continued apace this week, with an announcement from the Department of Homeland Security trumpeting the forthcoming deployment of “Man’s best friend [...] with a very futuristic twist.”
That twist, it turns out, is the inevitable-seeming reality that those charming robot dogs whose hilarious antics and tribulations have bewitched the internet for years will soon turn their cold, unfeeling, infrared night-vision ocular sensors on some of the most vulnerable people on earth: undocumented immigrants risking their lives to enter the country. Who could have seen it coming?
