Trump wants to keep his border wall promise with artificial intelligence

One of the main pillars of Donald Trump’s campaign to win the 2017 presidential election was to build and fix the border wall that separates the US from Mexico.

During the last couple of years, the Trump government has managed to build 322 kilometers of border wall and, according to its promise, it wants to continue building the wall for the rest of the year until it has 724 kilometers.

It is important to remember that the current presidential elections will take place in November 2020 and most likely, the Trump administration will use the border wall as a main axis to achieve reelection.

The president argues that this project greatly benefits the US for several reasons.

Let’s see some of them:

1. Decreases massive illegal immigration from Central America.
2. Protects the borders from the presence of gangs that threaten the security of the local population.
3. Ensures that foreigners follow a legal immigration process to enter the US.
4. Protects and safeguards essential resources for legal citizens that are often used excessively by undocumented immigrants.
5. During the health crisis, President Trump mentioned that the border wall prevented a massive outbreak of Coronavirus in the southern part of the country.

However, despite President Trump’s effort to build the entire border wall, there are areas where it has not been possible to build it for several reasons.

Let’s see some of them:

1. If the territory is private property, the government must have permission to turn it into federal property to be able to build the border wall.
   There are many citizens who do not want to give their properties to the government, either because they disagree with the construction of the wall or because they need their land to plant and harvest food.
2. There are specific areas protected by environmental entities that do not allow the construction of the wall because it can affect wildlife and the local ecosystem.
3. The wall cannot be built in a maritime zone.

Therefore, the Trump government announced through the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that it plans to use artificial intelligence as a resource to monitor the borders, especially in areas where it has not been possible to build the wall.

The current administration of the US has called this project “Virtual Border Wall”.

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The virtual border wall

The official statement, released on July 2, 2020, declares that there is an artificial intelligence specifically designed to detect movement at the borders by radars.

The Trump administration’s idea is to install approximately 200 radar towers to be able to detect mass movement and immediately alert border forces to move to different locations on the border and prevent illegal immigration.

In this way, the CBP can have full visibility of the borders without the need to send its specialized agents to take care of these territories that do not have a border wall yet.

In fact, the CBP chief stated, “These towers give field agents a significant advantage over criminal networks that facilitate illegal border crossing activities.”

In addition to that, it is important to emphasize that this idea has already been analyzed by Democrats around the country since it can use renewable energy and preserves the fauna and flora of the borders without affecting the environment.

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