Hidden in plain sight: Surveillance at the Arizona border

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Todd Miller/The Border Chronicle

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: February 19, 2026

Words: 3,596

Last Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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It happens every time Clarice Garcia visits from Paradise Valley, says her brother Warren Garcia.

It’s a long drive to the U.S.-Mexico border on the Tohono O’odham Nation — an area in southern Arizona the size of Connecticut — to a cemetery where some of the Garcias’ relatives are laid to rest. At times it’s desolate and heavily patrolled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Except some of the patrols are invisible.

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