The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico Border – The Markup

I’m Monique, an investigative reporter at The Markup and now on the i-team at CalMatters (if you’ve been offline this summer, we combined our newsrooms). I’ve been covering technology at the intersection of immigration, criminal justice, social justice and government accountability. This week, I’m introducing you to Francisco Lara-García, a sociologist at Hofstra University, to unpack how surveillance has evolved, and its relationship to folks, like himself, who call the towns, cities, and municipalities along the southern border home. One of the first words Lara-García learned to say was “sapaporte,”...