U.S. Customs and Border Protection has deployed about 175 surveillance towers along the southern border so far. But it is making some Democrats uneasy.
The ASTs, as they’re known at CBP, are cheaper to install and move around than the “integrated fixed towers,” or IFTs, that the agency has installed near busy crossing points along the border. The ASTs don’t require electrical hookups and can be relocated within two hours.
On a recent evening inside a control room at the busy Border Patrol station in Santa Teresa, N.M., a small team of operators watched the Lattice system on a bank of monitors linked to multiple camera towers. After sundown, as groups of migrants begin climbing the border wall to head north, CBP operators spotted and tracked multiple entries simultaneously, sending coordinates to agents on horseback and all-terrain vehicles.
“Before they installed the towers, there would often be 6 to 8 men walking through the streets of Valentine, gathering at the post office, asking to charge their cellphones, making the employees nervous,” he said. “We don’t have many of them show up in Valentine any more.”
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