Fox News cleared to fly after Biden FAA temporarily bans drones over bridge packed with illegal immigrants
Immigration,Del Rio,Border Crisis,Texas,Unauthorized Immigration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday night initially placed a two-week flight restriction along a bridge at the Texas-Mexico border inundated with thousands of illegal immigrants, which prevented reporters from flying drones to document the crisis – but Fox News regained clearance the next day.
"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 Thursday evening.
By Friday afternoon, the FAA announced that Fox News again could fly its drones in the area for the rest of the month.
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