Pro
Reduces US immigration processing backlog
Reduced detention center housing, improved health
Emigration helps Mexico’s economy
Emigration helps Latin America’s economy
Surveillance reduces
Sex trafficking
Crime
Drug trade
Terrorism
Espionage
Illegal wildlife trade
Surveillance frees-up military resources
Increase surveillance means Biden victory
Surveillance discourages immigration, reducing deaths from migration
Stops brain drain
Immigration hurts the US economy
Trades-off with low wage jobs
Overwhelms and trades-off with social services
Increased surveillance generally improves surveillance tech and AI
Con
Immigration helps the US economy
Innovation
Labor shortages
Brain circulation good
Remittances good
Poverty bad — immigrants fleeing poverty
Refugees — US should accept refugees
Spending on surveillance means resource trade-offs
Spending on surveillance politically popular
Privacy
Privacy of migrant
Privacy of Americans caught in the net
Surveillance industrial complex
Biometrics bad
Latin American Economy
Emigration critical to Latin America’s economy
Emigration critical to Mexico’s economy
Surveillance helps Biden win, Trump better
Cybersecurity — hackers steal data
Racial profiling bad
Monitoring of social movements bad
Surveillance leads to environmental pollution and destruction