{"id":781796,"date":"2021-09-17T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=781796"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:44:04","slug":"biden-admin-bans-drones-from-photographing-immigration-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-bans-drones-from-photographing-immigration-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Bans Drones From Photographing Immigration Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-bans-drones-from-photographing-immigration-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=781796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.476868327402\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">More than 10,000 immigrants encamped at border<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/rsz_2021-09-17t144956z_1_lynxmpeh8g0nv_rtroptp_4_usa-immigration-border-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/rsz_2021-09-17t144956z_1_lynxmpeh8g0nv_rtroptp_4_usa-immigration-border.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/rsz_2021-09-17t144956z_1_lynxmpeh8g0nv_rtroptp_4_usa-immigration-border-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/rsz_2021-09-17t144956z_1_lynxmpeh8g0nv_rtroptp_4_usa-immigration-border-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSome of the thousands of immigrants sheltered near the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas \/ Reuters\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 September 17, 2021 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"91.280575539568\">\n<p>The Biden administration banned the media from using drones to take pictures of a U.S.-Mexico border checkpoint as tens of thousands of immigrants pour across the border.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration, which is under the control of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/17\/faa-grounds-fox-news-drones-in-texas-near-sheltering-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordered<\/a> a two-week flight ban over the Del Rio, Texas, border crossing and the city&#8217;s International Bridge. Before the order, Fox News had used a drone to take pictures of thousands of migrants who crossed the border illegally and are sheltering under a bridge in Del Rio.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA said that the &#8220;Border Patrol requested the temporary flight restriction due to drones interfering with law enforcement flights&#8221; and noted that media outlets can &#8220;make requests to operate in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fox News has been at the border for the better part of seven months now,&#8221; said network correspondent Bill Melugin. &#8220;It&#8217;s never been an issue. All of a sudden, the last 24 hours, we start showing these images at this bridge and a [temporary flight restriction] goes up.&#8221; He called the ban&#8217;s timing &#8220;a little bit curious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Texas senator Ted Cruz (R.), who called the humanitarian situation &#8220;the most horrific thing I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; went further, saying that &#8220;political operatives at the Biden White House&#8221; ordered the ban because &#8220;the last thing they want is Fox News actually reporting on what&#8217;s happening down here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,500 immigrants are camped out under the bridge as they wait for Border Patrol agents to arrest them, at which point they can plead asylum. The migrants, a majority of whom are Haitian, are living in squalid conditions with few basic services, the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-58593632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) on Thursday said federal agents were &#8220;overwhelmed by the chaos,&#8221; which he blamed on the White House. Border Patrol fears a &#8220;human stampede could happen at any time,&#8221; Univision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/index.php\/videos\/univision-border-patrol-overwhelmed-fears-human-stampede\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis is not the first time the administration has faced extensive criticism for its handling of the border. Under Biden, illegal border crossings have risen to their highest point in 21 years, with 208,887 Border Control encounters in August alone. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/dhs-braces-for-terror-threat-on-southern-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expects<\/a> a terror threat from Mexico, and attempts to smuggle fentanyl at the border have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/fentanyl-smuggling-surges-at-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surged<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden in March named border czar, did not <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/kamala-harris-border-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit<\/a> the border until June.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security More than 10,000 immigrants encamped at border  Some of the thousands of immigrants sheltered near the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas \/ Reuters &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}