The US military flies surveillance aircraft along the Mexican and southern border, and will gather intelligence reports and conduct reconnaissance, according to US defense sources familiar with operations at the border.
The U-2 spy plane is coupled with P-8A Poseidon aircraft and flies over the length of the border.
Navy P-8A and U-2 Air Force aircraft have been deployed at the border since President Donald Trump issued a one-day executive order declaring a national emergency and dispatched about one animal a day. Masu.
Fox News says this isn't the first time the US has flew this kind of surveillance along the border.
It is not clear whether the aircraft is flying in Mexican airspace or whether it will need to be in Mexico airspace to carry out surveillance flights.
“We cannot discuss specific truck/flight paths, but aircraft are flying in support of the common issues of our sovereign nation,” an Air Force spokesman told Fox News.
“We respect Mexico's sovereignty. We do not need a permit from another country to fly in international airspace.”
The U-2 “provides high altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance day and night, and “provides important imagery and signal intelligence to decision makers,” the Air Force wrote in its aircraft description.
The Navy describes the P-8 Poseidon as “a multi-mission maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft” that conducts long-range anti-submarine warfare, face-to-face warfare, intelligence reporting, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Fox News was having a debate at the Pentagon about how spy planes reassure the public that they haven't collected any information about US citizens.
If the aircraft inadvertently collects Intel on American citizens who live at the border or cross at legal checkpoints, the operator will need to erase such data.
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