Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are Creeping Up the California Coast

A "massive expansion" of surveillance, spurred by private industry, moves beyond the border in California.

A Border Patrol Automated Surveillance Tower made by the company Anduril in Texas. (Photo credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

On April 8, 2022, Paul Enriquez of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Program Management Office wrote Cassidy Teufel of the California Coastal Commission—the state agency in charge of conserving, restoring, and enha…