Fox News took over an exclusive late-night helicopter ride The El Paso, Texas, sector, Offers a look at American customs and border protection (CBP) to catch migrants who try to avoid, and the challenges that agents are confronted every night.
Our team looked first and foremost at the advanced technology that BP uses to detect migrants and smugglers.
Agents with those of the desk Aerial and marine operations Wore nocturnal vision -glasses while we flew above one of the busiest areas for migrant traffic.
“Okay, those two crawl away,” said one of the agents.
Fox News takes an exclusive look at the border in the El Paso sector with customs and border protection in El Paso, Texas. (Fox News)
The helicopter was equipped with a high -tech camera designed for nocturnal supervision. The agents have checked a live feed, improved by a map software, allowing them to locate the exact locations of The migrants.
We watched how some migrants cut holes in the border wall and knead through it, while others hid behind the brush, who rolled on the desert to slide past the authorities. She doesn’t know, we were five miles away with agents and still able to follow them every movement of the air and in the pitch black.
Agents also used lasers that are invisible to the naked eye. The lasers can retain on goals, giving precise coordinates.
The air and marine agents remained constant in communication with Border Patrol Agents On the floor and could lead to the locations.
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Fox News took an exclusive helicopter ride with customs and border protection in El Paso, Texas. (Fox News)
Our camera crew on the ground won several of the fear, including that of a 19-year-old from Mexico And a man from Guatemala.
Not only his encounters in the El Paso sector, but agents Fox News tell the number of “Gotaways”, which are migrants who catch them avoid, has also decreased. On Wednesday, Border Patrol agents said they had zero gootays, which was the first time in a few years.
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Agents also pointed to the new presence of Border Patrol and National Guard vehicles stationed in hotspots. Prior to the Trump administration, border patrol agents were so thin that they said they did not have the manpower to have a strong presence in these critical areas.
