Biden Finally Finds a Balloon He Wants To Take Down: Surveillance Blimps at the Southern Border

President yanks airships that were used to monitor ‘gotaways Border Patrol Aerostat surveillance (Getty Images).

After refusing for days to shoot down China’s spy satellite, the Biden administration found an airship they are willing to remove: surveillance blimps that monitor South America’s border.

Fox News reports that the Biden administration has taken the blimps out of commission, which allows agents to detect illegal migration activity over long periods of times. This is due to funding cuts. reported. Last year, there were twelve surveillance balloons in operation. Only four of them are still operational.

Agents for Customs and Border Protection Telled Fox has requested the removal the blimps (known in the agency as their “Eyes in the Sky,” This will severely hinder their ability track illegal immigrants who have evaded detention at the border. There were 1.2 Million illegal immigrants as of January “gotaways” Since Biden was elected to the presidency.

Biden’s groundings are announced a week following the President’s delay of days in shooting down a Chinese spy plane traversing the United States. First reported Jan. 31. The aircraft floated over Montana’s military and nuclear bases. The vessel was finally shot down by the military over the Atlantic Ocean on February 4.

Biden was not as indecisive with the border guard balloons: After funding dried up, the security devices were removed from the border on Jan. 1.

“Although the Border Patrol’s number of aerostats will be reduced, the Border Patrol will continue to use aerostats throughout FY 2023,” Fox was told by a Border Patrol official.

In the midst of a worsening migrant crisis, the decision to ground surveillance balloons was made. More migrants were processed in December than ever before—251,487 in Total.

New York, New Hampshire, Vermont border agents reported an increase of 743 percent in migrants encounters between October 2021 and December 2021.

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