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Nearly one-third of the cameras that are part of the U.S. Border Patrol’s main surveillance system along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border are not functioning, according to an internal agency memo from earlier this month that was obtained by NBC News on Monday.

The agency wrote in the memo that the “nationwide issue is having significant impacts” on its operations. The outage was attributed to “several technical problems” and it has affected anywhere between 150 to 500 cameras.

The report cited an anonymous source from within the agency who attributed the widespread problem to “outdated equipment and outstanding repair issues.”