No surprise at the mismanagement involved, sadly. I’m reminded of a (somewhat) similar high tech wonder system proposed back in the mid-1980s. I forget the name, but it was a system of sensors, surveillance balloons, etc. that was supposed to completely shut down drug trafficking along a section of the border. It was, of course, an abject failure. Nothing worked like it was supposed to, and pork barrel politics moved some of the equipment from the border to districts hundreds of miles away.
It’s great to detect it, but you have to have human beings to stop it.