This Loophole Makes Most Americans Susceptible to Government Surveillance | VICE on SHOWTIME

just being here is an act of defiance why is that because the government is hell-bent on keeping people off the river they don't want anyone here to observe and document what they're doing so at either end of the wall there are little outposts like national guard or observation towers and then there's those big surveillance towers the raid towers are replacing all of these little ones you can see some of the relays on the telephone poles and the omnidirectional antenna sticking out of a tree different things like that as we head up river mariano trevino wright is the executive director of the national butterfly center in mission texas which sits on the rio grande directly across from mexico she's a u.s citizen but because mariana lives and works near the border she lives under the thumb of cdp and border patrol no sir we didn't so they just did that to get their own video of all of you mariana might sound alarmist but the jurisdiction of cbp doesn't just apply to migrants or those living along the border it extends 100 miles inland leaving two-thirds of the u.s population susceptible to potential surveillance mariana herself has found multiple cameras and recording devices on her property you suspect they're collecting information about you i know they're collecting information about everyone in about 2014 2015 i could hear clicking in and out of my cell phone and i told my husband i think they're listening to my cell phone calls out on the border and then not long after that they produced all the documents attesting to the fact that they were doing exactly that just by virtue of living near the border you're subject to all this surveillance without any consent without like any due cause or warrants without any of that i mean this sounds like a civil liberties nightmare it's very stressful i mean the harassment is everywhere you know you look at a country like china that has like technological tracking of all of its citizens facial recognition technology social scores all of these things and i think people are like the united states is never going to be like china like that no we absolutely will you

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Published: Sun Dec 05 2021