The Federal Aviation Administration has placed a temporary two-week ban on flying over a bridge at the southern border in Texas that has been inundated with thousands of illegal immigrants.
This came immediately after a drone video went viral showing the bridge is filled with illegal aliens.
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BREAKING: Our drone is back over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX. Per source, the number of migrants waiting to be processed has now swelled to approx 8,200. It was 4,000 yesterday AM. Doubled in one day. BP overwhelmed, & I’m told situation is “out of control” @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/ThJJJ0JWCT
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 16, 2021
"We’ve learned that the FAA just implemented a two-week TFR (Temporary Flight Restrictions) over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, meaning we can no longer fly our FOX drone over it to show images of the thousands of migrants. FAA says ‘special security reason,’" Fox News reporter Bill Melugin tweeted.
NEW: We’ve learned that the FAA just implemented a two week TFR (Temporary Flight Restrictions) over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, meaning we can no longer fly our FOX drone over it to show images of the thousands of migrants. FAA says “special security reason”. pic.twitter.com/aJrjAPO2Pz
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 17, 2021
Melugin went on to say that Fox News has been using drones for months, and there have never been any issues.
“I just want to point out, Fox News has been at the border for the better part of seven months now,” Melugin said. “We’ve been using the drone the entire time. It’s never been an issue. All of a sudden, the last 24 hours, we start showing these images at this bridge, and a TFR goes up. We can no longer fly.”
"We have reached out to the FAA to ask for clarification on why this TFR was implemented," Melugin tweeted. "We haven’t heard back yet. Will update if/when we do."
On Thursday night, the FAA released a brief statement about the situation.
"The Border Patrol requested the temporary flight restriction due to drones interfering with law enforcement flights on the border," the FAA said, according to Fox News. "As with any temporary flight restriction, media is able to call the FAA to make requests to operate in the area."
Law enforcement source on the ground at the bridge this morning just sent me this video showing the situation there. I’m told a large majority of the migrants are Haitians and more are crossing into the US and arriving at the bridge by the minute. BP w/ limited manpower @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/dHWCrhFikq
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 16, 2021
One source with law enforcement said that most illegal immigrants are Haitians and that more and more of them are arriving by the minute. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was quick to slam the FAA for issuing this temporary ban.
"What a coincidence," Cotton tweeted. "The FAA better be ready to explain to Congress why they're suddenly blocking the media from covering Biden's border crisis."
What a coincidence.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) September 17, 2021
The FAA better be ready to explain to Congress why they're suddenly blocking the media from covering Biden's border crisis. https://t.co/fd2y7G8RRg
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed the temporary ban as “ridiculous,” adding that he had “never seen anything like that.”
“The drone footage started this morning, and people across the country were horrified, and I guess the political operatives at the Biden White House saw that and decided the last thing they want is Fox News reporting on what’s happening down here,” he said, according to The New York Post.
Cruz told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night that the bridge was “the most horrific thing I’ve ever seen. Right now, as we’re speaking, there are 10,503 people under that bridge. It is packed in as a mass of humanity. The scope of it, until you see it … it just goes on and on and on. Infants, little children, people struggling enormously.”
“This is a man-made crisis,” the senator said. “Eight days ago, on Sept. 8, under that same bridge, there were between 700 and 1,000 people. That was what was coming a day — about 1,000, sometimes 1,100 — but it would range between 700 and 1,100.
10,503 illegal aliens are under this bridge tonight because Joe Biden made a political decision to cancel deportation flights to Haiti.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 17, 2021
The Border Patrol is overcapacity. It’s indefensible, it’s inhuman, and it was entirely caused by Biden & Harris. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/LmWV52nmJc
“Then, eight days ago on Sept. 8, the Biden administration made a political decision: They announced that they were no longer going to fly deportation flights back to Haiti,” Cruz added. “Eighty-five percent of the people under there are from Haiti. They’re fleeing from Haiti … There were about 900 Haitians who were getting ready to board the flights when the political operatives in Washington canceled the flights."
I am on the ground in Del Rio, Texas tonight. As of this moment, there are 10,503 illegal aliens under the Del Rio International Bridge.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 17, 2021
This manmade disaster was caused by Joe Biden. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/VpzkrH1zyb
“Well, what happened?” Cruz asked. “Those 900 people, they all pulled out their cellphones, and they emailed their friends, and they emailed their families, and they texted their friends and their families. That was eight days ago … eight days later, and 700 people have grown to 10,500 because the word has gone out: If you’re from Haiti, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have said, ‘We have open borders, come to Del Rio, and they will let you in.'”
In the nine months that Biden has been in office, the situation at the border has gotten entirely out of control. We can only imagine how much worse it is going to get if he remains in office for three more years.
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This piece was written by James Samson on September 17, 2021. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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