The Borg have cloaking tech. The Borg choose not to use it, as it’s inefficient, and ineffectual.
Due to the enormous amount of power required to generate a cloaking field, there was, by and large, not enough power available to also power the weapons and shields. (TOS: "Balance of Terror") When the Romulan cloaking device was first installed on the USS Defiant, the ship even had to decloak to use the transporter. (DS9: "The Search, Part I") However, there were several times when advances in cloaking technology rendered these tactical inefficiencies untrue.
Federation ships are far below Borg ships in ability, yet are able to detect said races cloaked ships, every single time. Why then would the Borg who are so much more advanced use a piece of technology that is pointless to them. The Borg are looking for fights, species to assimilate. While these other races use inefficient cloaking fields, and it’s reasonable to assume the Borg could make it more efficient, again the need for cloaking is not there.
TLDR; The Borg’s primary goal is to assimilate any and everything that will improve their species. They do this by brute force; cloaking tech and subterfuge is something we have never seen the Borg employ.
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