has sunk billions of dollars into towers 30-feet, even 160-feet tall, towers that are topped with radar, with night vision or thermal vision, and were built by the world’s mightiest defense contractors. Luckey’s last enterprise was a success - he sold Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion - but the history of America’s quest for the smart wall has been, to say the least, underwhelming. “I’m going to make sure that we have border protection,” Biden said last year, “but it’s going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it.”Īt the moment, this high-tech capacity will come from Anduril, which has a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to place 200 sentry towers along the border in Texas, New Mexico and California. Tucked between reforms for asylum, for visas, for the Dream Act, was a section titled “Deploying Smart Technology at the Southern Border.” Technology, the bill read, was the only way to “responsibly manage” and provide “situational awareness” on an otherwise vast, remote border. On his first day in office, President Biden released his U.S. This is, at least, the vision Joe Biden is counting on.
With a smart wall, migrants who found themselves lost in the deserts and mountains along the border would be spotted, captured and safely deported. It would not only save money by reducing the number of agents needed to patrol the 2,000 miles of unforgiving terrain, it would also save lives. But a smart wall, a line of all-seeing surveillance towers aimed south, promises to seal the border through innovation. Every president since Bill Clinton has chased this technological dream.
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