As American Family News recently reported, the skies over El Paso, Texas were briefly shut down last week for "special security reasons" so that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Defense could neutralize a cartel drone incursion.
Bob Maginnis, president of Maginnis Strategies, LLC., believes the air war with Mexican drug cartels is escalating, and if Mexico cannot take care of the cartel drone problem, then the U.S. might have to plan an incursion to "knock out the drug cartel infrastructure."
"We have to go out to wherever they have those drones," he says. "They modify them with technology and munitions and the like, so, it is a far more serious problem."
Still, this would not be the first time such measures have been taken. Maginnis is aware of three previous incursions beginning in 1846 and as late as 1916-1917 under Army General John Pershing.
"So, there is a precedent here," the defense analyst asserts. "I think we have a vested interest in doing that. If the drones don't stop, much like the boats, we can shoot them down. But in the case of the drones, they're launching from specific territory inside Mexico, and we have the capability of reaching out and touching them and stopping them."
Pointing out that the ground border has dominated debate for years, Maginnis says the airspace above it may soon demand equal attention, and President Donald Trump's administration now faces a choice: respond incident by incident, or establish durable control of the skies along the southern border.
He is sure that President Trump is "very aware" of this and is considering an incursion going forward.
