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Cartels use drones to scout border agents and map smuggling routes

Cartel drones are scouting border agents and mapping smuggling routes, and experts expect the tactics to keep evolving; a cheap hobby with expensive consequences.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe U.S. military detected three hundred seventy-eight cartel drone incursions along the Mexico border in thirty days, and a Fox News expert warns the cartels will keep innovating.

  2. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterIt's a quiet stretch of desert. Or it was.

  3. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterBecause overhead, allegedly, something small and buzzing is taking notes on the agents, and the agents did NOT sign up for this!

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTaking notes.

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