Controversy flares up over drone journalism at the border

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Last week saw a new controversy over the use of drones bloom in Texas, after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a Temporary Flight Restriction that temporarily grounded news organizations’ drones at the southern border.

A number of media organizations, including the El Paso Times, had been using footage from unmanned systems to document the federal response to the arrival of Haitian migrants planning to seek asylum.

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