Hacker News with Generative AI: Border Security

Ottawa proposes 24/7 surveillance of Canada-U.S. border (cbc.ca)
U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken (eff.org)
A new bombshell scoop from NBC News revealed an internal U.S. Border Patrol memo claiming that 30 percent of camera towers that compose the agency's "Remote Video Surveillance System" (RVSS) program are broken.
Migrant encounters at U.S.-Mexico border have fallen sharply in 2024 (pewresearch.org)
After reaching a record high at the end of 2023, the monthly number of U.S. Border Patrol encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico has plummeted so far in 2024.
China has moved people -“border guardians”- to new settlements on its frontiers (nytimes.com)
Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border (reason.com)