This week anti-immigrant rhetoric and online misinformation spurred riots in Great Britain following the fatal stabbing of three girls. The rioters attacked Muslim and migrant communities and immigration centers across the UK. Before that, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump supporters waved posters and changed “mass deportations now.”

In addition to these very visible scenes, profit-seeking corporations and individuals are quietly targeting vulnerable people escaping violence, poverty, and climate change. To discuss this, Esty Dinur speaks with lawyer and anthropologist Petra Molnar. Her new book, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, exposes the inhumane use of experimental surveillance technology on migrants around the world. 

Molnar discusses the incursion of surveillance technologies into everyday life, the use of AI lie detectors used in courts, the normalization of Face ID and face scans during travel, the violence of the surveillance dragnet that pushes the border into dangerous areas of the Sonoran Desert, and the brave work of humanitarian activists like the group Battalion Search and Rescue.

Image courtesy of The New Press.

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