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Illinois Representative Delia Ramirez plans to introduce legislation this week that would kill the surveillance tower program running along the US-Mexico border, a system that has cost taxpayers roughly a billion dollars since construction began. Ramirez, who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, is timing the bill to follow an MIT Technology Review investigation published days earlier, "Dying on Camera," which tracked deaths near the towers between 2015 and early 2026.

The investigation found that nearly one in four deaths in that period happened within the towers' advertised detection range, raising pointed questions about whether the technology does what its backers promised. Ramirez has read the reporting closely enough to cite specific figures from it in public remarks, pointing to the gap between the program's cost and its results.

What follows is Ramirez's own assessment of the towers, drawn from her comments after reviewing the investigation, and it lays out exactly why she thinks the program has failed on its central promise. Her bill would mark one of the most direct legislative challenges yet to the border surveillance infrastructure built up over the past decade.