{"id":6895,"date":"2021-12-26T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T16:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2021-12-26T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T16:22:20","slug":"a-10-million-scarecrow-the-quest-for-the-perfect-smart-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6895","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A $10-Million Scarecrow\u2019: The Quest for the Perfect \u2018Smart Wall\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“There was a time when Mexican vendors sold water jugs with a map glued to the side. The map displayed various mountain peaks, and migrants were directed to follow the promontories to highways where they would be picked up. Towers made that impossible. A 10-mile journey became a 20-mile march, and migrants increasingly relied on smugglers to guide them through arroyos, along mountainsides, weaving a path beyond sight of the towers. This is what Boyce and Chambers have termed CBP\u2019s \u201ccorral apparatus,\u201d an intentional strategy to funnel migrants into \u201ca narrower corridor of movement\u201d where they\u2019re more likely to become isolated, confused, and where \u201cphysiological strain, suffering and mortality are likely to be greatest.\u201d The very point of the surveillance tower placement, they contend, was to increase the difficulty of the journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn initial strategy was to channel people into certain areas, to funnel them to a place where it\u2019s easier to apprehend them,\u201d James Lewis, who had advised on SBInet, told me. \u201cThat\u2019s not good from a crosser perspective because they\u2019re forced into more inhospitable areas, and the casualty rate goes up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This corralling has an official name, it\u2019s called \u201cprevention through deterrence<\/a>.\u201d The Clinton administration devised this strategy and CBP still practices it today \u2014 consciously or not. During the program\u2019s first stages, in the mid-1990s, the U.S. raised walls near border cities with the intent to push migrants into the desert. Metrics like \u201ca shift in flow\u201d of migratory routes and \u201cfee increase by smugglers\u201d were signs of effectiveness. And deaths were an expected outcome. \u201cIllegal entrants crossing through remote, uninhabited expanses of land and sea along the border,\u201d the policy said, will \u201cfind themselves in mortal danger.\u201d The government likely figured this would be an added deterrent, as stories of dead fathers and siblings filtered back through migrant networks. That is not what happened. Instead, as people left broken economies and rampant violence for the U.S., the death toll along the border soared and still the migrants came.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/12\/10\/us-mexico-border-smart-wall-politics-artificial-intelligence-523918<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There was a time when Mexican vendors sold water jugs with a map glued to the side. The map displayed various mountain peaks, and migrants were directed to follow the promontories to highways where they would be picked up. Towers made that impossible. A 10-mile journey became a 20-mile march, and migrants increasingly relied on smugglers to guide them through arroyos, along mountainsides, weaving a path beyond sight of the towers. This is what Boyce and Chambers have termed CBP\u2019s \u201ccorral apparatus,\u201d an intentional strategy to funnel migrants into \u201ca narrower corridor of movement\u201d where they\u2019re more likely to become isolated, confused, and where \u201cphysiological strain, suffering and mortality are likely to be greatest.\u201d The very point of the surveillance tower placement, they contend, was to increase the difficulty of the journey.
\n\u201cAn initial strategy was to channel people into certain areas, to funnel them to a place where it\u2019s easier to apprehend them,\u201d James Lewis, who had advised on SBInet, told me. \u201cThat\u2019s not good from a crosser perspective because they\u2019re forced into more inhospitable areas, and the casualty rate goes up.\u201d<\/p>\n

This corralling has an official name, it\u2019s called \u201cprevention through deterrence.\u201d The Clinton administration devised this strategy and CBP still practices it today \u2014 consciously or not. During the program\u2019s first stages, in the mid-1990s, the U.S. raised walls near border cities with the intent to push migrants into the desert. Metrics like \u201ca shift in flow\u201d of migratory routes and \u201cfee increase by smugglers\u201d were signs of effectiveness. And deaths were an expected outcome. \u201cIllegal entrants crossing through remote, uninhabited expanses of land and sea along the border,\u201d the policy said, will \u201cfind themselves in mortal danger.\u201d The government likely figured this would be an added deterrent, as stories of dead fathers and siblings filtered back through migrant networks. That is not what happened. Instead, as people left broken economies and rampant violence for the U.S., the death toll along the border soared and still the migrants came.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[449,433,53,26,493,25,945,434],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-border","tag-border-wall","tag-deaths","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-mexico","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6896,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/6896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}