ABSTRACT
Walls, sensors, drones and other border technologies are all the result of acts of volition on the part of policy makers responding to the adaptation of clandestine agents whose business model is to defy and exploit border interdictions. The border infrastructure as we imagine it today is a relatively recent policy event in the geopolitical history of the US-Mexico border. This chapter presents the technology adoption process in the context of the discourse that surrounds it; we can better understand how technological innovation contributes to shape the geopolitical conflict at the edge of the state. The walling technology is perceived as an unfair policy that sacrifices the binational identity of the local communities. The chapter explains the politics of border enforcement that should consider scientific approaches to study the consequences of innovation patterns in the present and future behavior of clandestine border agents.
