Tue Sep 21, 2021 – 9:10 am EDT
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(WND News Center) – The Biden administration shut down a Fox News drone flying over the U.S.-Mexico border after its cameras showed thousands of people who had crossed illegally into the United States crammed under a bridge, waiting to be processed.
The Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, said in a statement that “the Border Patrol requested the temporary flight restriction due to drones interfering with law enforcement flights on the border.”
The FAA added that “as with any temporary flight restriction, media is able to call the FAA to make requests to operate in the area.”
The “stunning footage” of more than 9,000 illegal immigrants at the border was shown on Fox News “Special Report” on Thursday, reported the Media Research Center’s Newsbuster site.
See the Fox News coverage:
National correspondent Bill Melugin said the “drones spotted masses of migrants crossing from Ciudad Acuna Mexico over a dam in the Rio Grande and into the United States illegally.”
“They then stream into Del Rio via dirt path, hundreds coming by the hour with more on the way every day,”
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