Posted on 12/19/2018 6:15:42 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Border Patrol agents tracked an ultralight aircraft as it crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and made it 30 miles into the country early Tuesday morning — and when they got to the landing spot, they found two Chinese men who had been smuggled in by the aircraft.
The ultralight had escaped, lifting back off and returning to Mexico, but agents say they did manage to nab a Mexican man waiting in a vehicle near the landing zone in southern California, apparently ready to pick up the Chinese men and deliver them to their destination.
Experts said they had seen ultralights, small aircraft powered by lawn mower-sized engines, used to drop loads of drugs in the U.S. But they were surprised to see them being used to ferry illegal immigrants.
“It’s disturbing,” said Chris Harris, who retired this year after a two-decade career as a Border Patrol agent in San Diego and who suggested it could be a way for cartels to get dangerous people across the border. “If you want to get some operatives in this country very quickly, that’s a way.”
Gloria I. Chavez, chief patrol agent in the El Centro sector of the Border Patrol, agreed that ultralights pose a threat to “national security.”
“These aircraft are able to carry small payloads of dangerous cargo or dangerous people,” she said.
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Our government must act! Secure the borders! This will be a military matter and the Commandder-in-Chief must defend our nation!
Shoot them down
Amen
Jeh Johnson, “What’s an autogyro?”.
Nothing that surface to air missiles can’t fix.
It’s clearly time for LETHAL defense of the borders. Otherwise there will be hundreds and hundreds of these ferrying in God knows what and who.
Build the wall 5,000 feet high.
Meanwhile, if someone with a toy drone there’s to fly within 20 miles of Washington DC, the place goes into lockdown AAA comes out, investigation start taking place.
One word: lasers.
Heck, a 12-gauge could take out one of those things.
Here in SanDiego an ultra light
Delivery of Methamphetamine
Was captured just a couple of days
ago.
130 pounds worth
one and a half Million Bucks!
Kind of like a helicopter, but the rotor isn't powered. You have a conventional propellor providing forward thrust. The rotor blades turn and provide lift even though they aren't powered. The concept has been around many decades.
now what kind of Chin is going to go to all the danger and trouble of crossing the border like that??? 
Getting things done on the border takes initiative.
Illegal Alien Airlines - We love leech...and it shows!
Ping.
It’s so incredibly infuriating that so many of our so-called leaders support this invasion.
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