Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities

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Sam Biddle,  Staff Writer  -  The InterceptStephan: Just as Hitler used the identification and capture of Jews to justify the creation of the German Gestapo so Trump, and his villains, Homan and Miller, are using immigrants as the justification for creating the ICE/Border Patrol Modern Gestapo that is going to put all of us under surveillance. Keeping close surveillance over the population is exactly what fascists always do, only this time the technological capabilities are far greater than they were in Germany in the 1930s. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent looks on as smoke fills an area outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs building during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Portland, Ore. Credit: Jenny Kane / AP U.S. Customs and Border Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking “advanced AI” technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls. A CBP presentation for an “Industry Day” summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for surveillance towers along the border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood. The recent passage of Trump’s sprawling flagship legislation funnels tens of billions of dollars [...]