EFF Installs Border Technology Exhibit at Angel Island Immigration Station

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SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has installed a photographic and informational exhibit on border surveillance technology for public viewing at Angel Island State Park—the first such display ever in a California State Park and a National Historic Landmark.

The “Border Surveillance: Places, People, and Technology” exhibit—launching Wednesday, April 2 and open through late May in cooperation with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) and California State Parks—explores the “virtual wall” that the U.S. government has built along the U.S.-Mexico border, affecting people’s civil rights on both sides.

“There are few better places than Angel Island, where U.S. policy enabled the persecution of thousands of Asian immigrants, for an exhibition on the tools used today to conduct warrantless spying on people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border,” said EFF Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Matthew Guariglia. “We hope that as people visit Angel Island to reflect upon America’s immigration policies of the past, this exhibit will help them reflect on how we deal with our borders—and the people who live and travel there—now and in the future.”

EFF for years has been amassing data and images about the massive increase in surveillance technology infrastructure at the U.S.-Mexico border. EFF staff members have made a series of trips all along the U.S.-Mexico border, from the California coast to the tip of Texas, to learn from communities on both sides of the border, interview journalists,

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