🚨 ANOTHER CBP SURVEILLANCE BLIMP DOWN 🚨 A U.S. military-owned surveillance aerostat being operated near Laredo, Texas broke free during storms and crashed in Mexico this week according to CNN. These blimps are constantly sold to the public as “life-saving” border technology. In reality, they are part of the expanding border military industrial complex — a surveillance infrastructure designed to push vulnerable people farther into remote desert terrain where rescue becomes less likely and death becomes more common. Meanwhile, humanitarian volunteers searching for the missing and recovering the dead are expected to operate on donations, old vehicles, and unpaid labor. There always seems to be funding for: • surveillance towers • tactical aerostats • drones • military contractors • border walls • remote detection systems But almost nothing for humanitarian search and rescue. The aerostat program itself has been controversial for years. CBP and the Department of Defense have repeat...