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Texas sheriff favors surveillance towers over more border wall

A French report contrasts the steel barrier's expansion with landowners' objections, a nearly empty migrant shelter and a sheriff's technological alternative.

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Midterms aux États-Unis : les républicains de Donald Trump menacés jusque dans leurs bastions ?

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0:31Construction crews extend the steel barrier through remote parts of Texas.
1:03Paul and Shirley Claraday show how the wall crosses their property, leaving their home on its southern side.
2:33Landowners protest requisitions, while former Big Bend superintendent Bob Krumenaker questions the wall's ecological and geographical suitability.
3:19The report describes multibillion-dollar construction contracts; workers approached at the site decline to comment.
3:46A Ciudad Juárez shelter is nearly empty; José Antonio identifies deportations as a deterrent to crossing.
4:58Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland advocates autonomous surveillance towers with all-around camera coverage instead of more wall.

Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland points to a different way of policing the Texas-Mexico border: autonomous surveillance towers with cameras that scan in every direction. In a report from France's TF1 INFO, he argues that this technology, rather than more wall, is what his county needs.

Journalist Justine Jankowski follows accelerated construction through remote parts of Texas, examining what President Donald Trump's signature immigration promise means for the people living along its route. The report places those encounters within the midterm campaign, with immigration sharing the political agenda with inflation.

Its title, "Midterms aux États-Unis : les républicains de Donald Trump menacés jusque dans leurs bastions ?", asks whether Trump's Republicans are threatened even in their strongholds. The reporting itself is principally a border journey, not an assessment of individual election contests.

At Sierra Blanca, Paul Claraday and his wife, Shirley, show how the barrier crosses their private property. Their house has been left south of the wall, though that does not mean the international boundary has moved. Claraday says he voted for Trump but now opposes him because of what has happened to his land.

Another landowner, Lico Miller, warns that the requisition of border properties should concern people elsewhere. An aerial journey over Big Bend National Park adds a different objection: former park superintendent Bob Krumenaker argues that a wall is ill-suited to this isolated landscape and would damage its ecology. The report also describes multibillion-dollar construction contracts; a worker approached on site declines to speak.

Across the border in Ciudad Juárez, Pastor Victor shows the almost empty Comedor La Esperanza shelter. Resident José Antonio attributes the deterrent effect to mass deportations, while arguing that the border remains physically crossable for someone determined to make the journey.

Cleveland's camera towers provide the report's final alternative: detecting movement across remote terrain rather than extending the steel barrier through it.

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