A congressional representative just proposed killing America's border tower program

A congressional representative just proposed killing America's border tower program The proposed bill comes days after an MIT Technology Review investigation revealed that over 1,050 people have died within the advertised range of surveillance towers. Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the US southern border. The announcement comes just days after publication of an investigation, "Dying on Camera," in which we looked at deaths along the border that took place close to one or more of these towers. We also showed that the Department of Homeland Security does not keep track of these deaths or other metrics on the towers' success or failure. Ramirez, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee, cited's reporting that nearly "1,100 people have died within range of a billion-dollar surveillance tower system between 2015 and 2026," adding, "The towers that we have paid a billion dollars to just don't work." The US spent billions on border surveillance.