When we think of the chaos on the southern border, many of us probably imagine lines of illegal migrants trudging up a muddy riverbank behind a cartel mule and crawling through a hole in a fence before being loaded onto a bus heading to Chicago. What we probably don’t think of (at least as often) is someone piloting a high-tech, remote-controlled drone and conducting surveillance or making deliveries. And yet that’s increasingly what’s been happening, according to the American military and the Border Patrol. The cartels have stepped up their technology game and there are now literally thousands of drones crossing into American airspace every month. That sort of technological leap makes fighting off the cartels even harder than it already was. (NY Post)
More than 1,000 drones per month are crossing into US airspace near the border with Mexico, a top general told lawmakers…
