Migrant woman dies at San Diego border within sight of surveillance camera

On 14 September 2025, 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández died at the US-Mexico border near San Diego within plain sight of a surveillance camera meant to locate and assist her. MIT Technology Review's 22 September 2026 investigation documented this case as emblematic of how border surveillance fails to save lives.

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She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight

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She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost. It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández crossed the border from the eastern edge of Tijuana into Southern California, sending voice messages to her mother and sister as she walked. This story is part of Dying…