Apps, 911 Services and Mobile Phones Don’t Offset Deadly Consequences of More Restrictive Border Policies

Immigration at the United States-Mexico border is being discussed on a new front: emerging border technologies. Mobile phone-based interventions intended to streamline the asylum-seeking process are instead inefficient and bogged down with requests, and border surveillance equipment meant to identify those requiring medical aid brings with it an increased risk of deportation. U-M researcher Angela Schöpke Gonzalez breaks down the new technologies and their implications for The Conversation.