A good drone could go higher than that. Notice the plane, "DEVIL54" was at 3100'.
Posted on 09/17/2021 7:21:17 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Drones that captured images and videos of thousands of illegal immigrants under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, were grounded late Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin told Tucker Carlson on Thursday night that he found the timing and location of the FAA’s two-week flight restriction in the area “a little bit curious.”
“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.”
The FAA told the outlet the “temporary flight restriction” (TFR) over the Del Rio Port of Entry and the International Bridge was put in place for “special security reasons.”
“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. “As with any temporary flight restriction, media is able to call the FAA to make requests to operate in the area.”
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 (@BillFOXLA) September 17, 2021
Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) made the following statement condemning the FAA’s action to restrict drone access over the worsening illegal alien encampment at the Del Rio bridge:
“We know what they’re doing and they are not getting away with it,” said Biggs. “Restricting and blocking the media’s drones over the Del Rio bridge proves that the Administration is fully aware of the crisis they have created. This refusal to be transparent is yet another way the Biden Administration is trying to twist the true narrative of what is happening at the border. With or without media access, we will not stop working to expose the truth about this humanitarian and national security crisis.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), at the scene, slammed the “ridiculous” restriction, adding he’s “never seen anything like” the 10,500-plus group of illegals packed under the bridge.
10,503 illegal aliens are under this bridge tonight because Joe Biden made a political decision to cancel deportation flights to Haiti.
The Border Patrol is overcapacity. It’s indefensible, it’s inhuman, and it was entirely caused by Biden & Harris. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/LmWV52nmJc — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 17, 2021
“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 actually reporting on what’s happening down here,” he said.
On Thursday, Cruz told the Todd Starnes Show there were thousands of Haitians feeling the disaster-torn country, adding that many of them were COVID-positive.
There is nothing stopping them. Worst the FAA can do it confiscate the drone. But by then, you’ve already got the footage.
Another option: News media camera rides in a law enforcement helicopter. Call it a law enforcement intelligence operation with ‘embedded media’.
One thing for sure: With this number at one time, someone had BETTER keep and eye on this - I don’t care WHAT the fed says about it.
just my $0.02
jimjohn - OUT
The Deep State just got deeper.
Justice Joseph Story, in his Commentaries on the Constitution, had agreed with you that many things are related to commerce, Story mentioned "intimately connected."
The problems is that Story also warned that when Congress starts regulating things that are tangent (my word) to commerce, then the Constitution's Article I, Section 8 limits on Congress's powers become meaningless.
"The question comes to this, whether a power, exclusively for the regulation of commerce, is a power for the regulation of manufactures? The statement of such a question would seem to involve its own answer. Can a power, granted for one purpose, be transferred to another? If it can, where is the limitation in the constitution? Are not commerce and manufactures as distinct, as commerce and agriculture? If they are, how can a power to regulate one arise from a power to regulate the other? It is true, that commerce and manufactures are, or may be, intimately connected with each other. A regulation of one may injuriously or beneficially affect the other. But that is not the point in controversy. It is, whether congress has a right to regulate that, which is not committed to it, under a power, which is committed to it, simply because there is, or may be an intimate connexion between the powers. If this were admitted, the enumeration of the powers of congress would be wholly unnecessary and nugatory. Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphases added]." —Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2:§§ 1073--91
Thomas Jefferson advised us to interpret the federal government's powers narrowly since the Constitution can always be amended to expand the fed's powers.
"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
Democrats are shipping them to swing states VOTES are their reward welfare and medical costs will sky rocket tax payers foot the bill.
Everything is on the down swing and it’s only been 8 months fasten your seat belts going to be a hell of a ride.
Good post. And in this case, we must remember first of all. The reason the FAA issued this TFR was to prevent widespread knowledge of what the DC putsch government is doing to our nation.
It’s not a true concern of interstate commerce and normal regulatory function. It is a coverup of government corruption.
The US citizens are asleep and ignorant to what is happening to our country. They are totally compliant on major media and our current government.
Trusting government, experts and those with journalistic credentials is often the first recourse of the doomed.
400 Ft
Fly them anyway. Make them take you to court.
How about a camera on a balloon? A kite? What “security “ purposes justify this restriction?
The restriction is obviously political.
You nailed it
There is nothing stopping them. Worst the FAA can do it confiscate the drone. But by then, you’ve already got the footage.
Another option: News media camera rides in a law enforcement helicopter. Call it a law enforcement intelligence operation with ‘embedded media’.
One thing for sure: With this number at one time, someone had BETTER keep and eye on this - I don’t care WHAT the fed says about it.
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