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Now “high-tech machines” (which, in fact, are very powerful X-rays) to detect drugs, which in the future should be accelerated by artificial intelligence.
Last week, Joe Biden called for support for the border security bill, which, among other things, provides for the purchase of 100 units of such equipment. Two days before the president's speech, NBC News reported that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) already has advanced fentanyl detection machines. 0/images/help-v.png” class=”help-v-z” alt=”US border guards will use X-rays and artificial intelligence to detect drugs”>Synthetic opioid analgesic (has an effect 20-40 times stronger than heroin , and 100 times stronger than morphine). – however, they were not installed because Congress had not yet appropriated funds for this.
As The Verge notes, the vast majority of fentanyl seized by Customs and Border Protection agents (more than 90%) is smuggled through official checkpoints by U.S. citizens, not migrants who cross the border unauthorized.
CBP seized approximately 20 tons of fentanyl through 2023, according to a Department of Homeland Security press release. More than half passed through one point – the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona (interestingly, there are already several X-ray machines there – and several more are stored in warehouses due to lack of funds for installation).
CBP currently scans about 20% of commercial vehicles and less than 5% of personal vehicles. In the future, they want to increase these figures to 70% and 40%, respectively – and artificial intelligence should help with this.
After the scan, the X-rays are sent to the command center, where they are checked for compliance with the documents (if it says that the truck is transporting bananas, then the scan should also show this).
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“One officer looks at one image,” says Kevin McAleenan, who served as CBP commissioner under Trump from 2018 to 2019. “If you're going to dramatically increase the number of checks, you're going to need not only a lot more scanners, but a lot more officers to read them, or you're going to need the help of technology.”
McAleenan co-founded Pangiam in 2020, an AI technology company for trade and travel. Last year they received a $16.86 million contract to develop “Anomaly Detection Algorithms” that would use artificial intelligence to analyze X-ray images scanned at the border.
“The way the cross-border supply chain works, many trucks actually come back to the U.S. empty,” McAleenan said. “The software can confirm that the truck and the scan are empty—the officer doesn't have to waste valuable time reviewing the image.”
A tool not yet in use at the border, trained from previous CBP X-ray scans.
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