Technology can be more cost effective in rural areas, and can be deployed more quickly:
The problem is that the next RAT President will just order it switched off and we will be back to where ewe are today.
Now, I do think that DJT should immediately order lethal force to defend the border, including robotic means. BUT he should also build a physical wall that no future politician will tear down by executive order.
I have ridden horseback west of El Paso along the Mexican border. You don’t know what remote is until you are out there.
It isn’t ‘rural’ -— it is REMOTE.