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The FAA Approves Media Drone Flights After Being Embarrassed by Texas DPS
Townhall.com ^ | 17 September A.D. 2021 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 09/18/2021 11:37:31 AM PDT by lightman

Yesterday the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] invoked a Temporary Flight Restriction [TFR] after Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin aired footage showing 10,000 illegal immigrants camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. The FAA claimed the TFR was invoked for a “security” reason.

After being grounded for over 12-hours, the Texas Department of Safety offered to take Melugin and his crew up to continue their coverage of Biden’s catastrophic border crisis.

Shortly after the trip, the FAA reopened the airspace.

While 10,000 illegal immigrants wait under a bridge to enter the U.S., 10,000 more are on the way. Border Patrol agents are completely overwhelmed. President Biden is at the beach for the weekend. The Mayor of Del Rio has been ignored as Biden allows thousands of illegal immigrants to overwhelm his town.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; bordersecurity; delrio; drone; faa; invasion; texas; texasdps
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Mayor Bruno “Ralphy” Lozano @BrunoRalphy · Sep 16, 2021 Good evening from Del Río, TX. 10,503 (as of 6:45pm, September 16, 2021) migrants under the Del Río International Bridge. This morning we started at 8,200. President Biden, have you been briefed on the ongoing crisis yet? @POTUS @VP @WhiteHouse @DHSgov @cnnbrk @FoxNews @ABC

Mayor Bruno “Ralphy” Lozano @BrunoRalphy President Biden, for reference, 10,503 people is inching close to 1/3 of the population of Del Rio, Texas. @POTUS @VP @DHSgov @FoxNews @GregAbbott_TX @cnnbrk @ABC @NBCNews @CBSNews 8:18 PM · Sep 16, 2021

1 posted on 09/18/2021 11:37:31 AM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

This was another excellent sample of Bidens overreach to be added to the growing list


2 posted on 09/18/2021 11:39:15 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: lightman

Who’s funding this part of the invasion?


3 posted on 09/18/2021 11:40:12 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: lightman
While 10,000 illegal immigrants wait under a bridge to enter the U.S. ...

They are already in the United States.

4 posted on 09/18/2021 11:40:42 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: lightman

THIS is how insurrection is done well. A state decides to stand up the the Federal government. State DPS was going to fly the reporter into the zone.


5 posted on 09/18/2021 11:40:45 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: lightman

After being grounded for over 12-hours, the Texas Department of Safety offered to take Melugin and his crew up to continue their coverage of Biden’s catastrophic border crisis.


LOL it was a thing of thing of beauty

Texas law enforcement gives Fox News a helicopter ride to continue reporting over Del Rio, TX

https://rumble.com/vmmxr7-video-local-law-enforcement-gives-fox-news-a-helicopter-ride-to-continue-re.html?mref=ah9c7&mrefc=13


6 posted on 09/18/2021 11:41:05 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Bell Bouy II

He attempts to control what he believes he can in order to divert attention from what he can’t—more likely WON’T.


7 posted on 09/18/2021 11:41:11 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Someone gave the order. Name them.
Someone told someone to give that order. Name them.
Rinse, repeat, until we get to the White House.
Find all of the above and make them hurt.


8 posted on 09/18/2021 11:41:59 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Paladin2

Who’s funding this part of the invasion?\—


not sure but someone has be to paying for the these buses

Busloads of migrants arriving in Acuña, Mexico to cross the Rio Grande 9-17-2021
https://rumble.com/vmo4hj-busloads-of-migrants-arriving-to-acua-mexico-to-cross-the-rio-grand-9-17-20.html?mref=ah9c7&mrefc=18


9 posted on 09/18/2021 11:42:07 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: gitmo

Yet, YOU aren’t despite standing in Houston airport until after an international flight until you have cleared customs.

Only US citizens get that treatment, vaccines, etc. Thousands of Haitians, Afghans, etc get the welcome matt, debit cards, no shots, etc.


10 posted on 09/18/2021 11:43:20 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: lightman

we still need to call for an investigation into the use of the FAA for political purposes.

Who within the Biden administration made the decision to interfere with legitimate news gathering?


11 posted on 09/18/2021 11:43:29 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: lightman

Its amazing how the entire Fed.gov bureaucracy falls into line behind leftist, statist, Democrat policy and their advantage. The Nazi’s called this “working towards the Fuhrer.”

Imagine the outrage if Trump told the FAA to ban media drones over some event he found embarrassing?


12 posted on 09/18/2021 11:44:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DesertRhino
THIS is how insurrection is done well. A state decides to stand up the the Federal government. State DPS was going to fly the reporter into the zone.

Thank God for Texas. They are the only contrast to top-down, one-party, globalist Washington DC total control.

13 posted on 09/18/2021 11:46:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: lightman

I’m thinking the Texas Department of Safety should have been broadcasting it live 24/7 in the first place.


14 posted on 09/18/2021 11:47:24 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (~Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.~)
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To: lightman

The Biden Democrats and globalists have 3 main goals....open borders and gun control and then fraudulent elections where they can change the Constitution and Bill of Rights.


15 posted on 09/18/2021 11:50:12 AM PDT by apoliticalone (SOCIAL JUSTICE is as much about justice as PATRIOT ACT is about patriotism. It''s called political )
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To: lightman

If this is left to stand, history will demand to know what it takes to impeach a president.


16 posted on 09/18/2021 11:52:54 AM PDT by Theophilous Meatyard III
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Embarrassed by the border deluge, Biden’s FAA invoked a Temporary Flight Restriction [TFR] after Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin aired footage showing 10,000 illegal immigrants camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas.

The FAA then claimed the TFR was invoked for a “security” reason.

After being grounded for over 12-hours, the Texas Department of Safety offered to fly Melugin and his crew to continue their coverage of Biden’s catastrophic border crisis.

Shortly after Fox aired even more startling details of the Biden mess up-close, the FAA reopened the airspace.


17 posted on 09/18/2021 11:54:23 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use)
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To: Bell Bouy II
This was another excellent sample of Bidens overreach to be added to the growing list

Exactly. More abuse of the office. IMHO this alone warrants impeachment proceedings to start immediately. We can get to the crimes against humanity and subsequent hangings later.

18 posted on 09/18/2021 11:59:22 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism ruins everything it touches. NUTS - Not United Troubled States.)
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To: Bell Bouy II

“This was another excellent sample of Bidens overreach to be added to the growing list”

“The Border Patrol requested the temporary flight restriction due to drones interfering with law enforcement flights on the border,” the FAA said in a statement Thursday evening. “As with any temporary flight restriction, media is able to call the FAA to make requests to operate in the area.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-faa-places-temporary-ban-on-drones-flying-over-bridge-packed-with-illegal-immigrants

And you’ll notice this was a FOX article.

Fox went to the FAA, asked for and coordinated their flights, and were approved to re-enter the area with recognized drone flights. The whole world knew already the Haitians are down there, and that they were crossing the dam. Another picture of them won’t change that. But clogging up airspace where the border patrol needs to be to control the actions being accomplished with news flights can be dangerous. And another thought is it could lead to people sending up explosives into the area and harming people. And that’s another thing the border patrol would have to be concerned about.

So the action wasn’t taken to protect Biden. It was done to protect the crowds. But leave it to hack journalists to make something out it wasn’t to sell their articles.

wy69


19 posted on 09/18/2021 11:59:46 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: lightman

Who is paying biden to destroy the country? He’s going to be rewarded richly for his actions in the Great Replacement/Fundamental Transformation of this country.


20 posted on 09/18/2021 12:00:49 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Dethrone the ruling elite. Redistribute their wealth. Take away their power. Annul their privileges.)
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