Kim Perales<p>Over the past few years, the TX DPS has quietly built out an expansive <a href="https://toad.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> apparatus -increasingly powered by <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>. Many of these tech acquisitions -made under the auspices of Gov Abbott’s Op Lone Star -$11B program that's supercharged the TX’s decades-long border militarization. </p><p>DPS has a fleet of spy planes, unmanned drones, & a NET of wildlife game cameras -deployed all across the borderlands of TX</p><p>I will likely, never visit TX.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/texas-dps-su</span><span class="invisible">rveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/</span></a></p>