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Homeland Security

DHS Predator Flights Begin In Texas Today

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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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Beginning today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will start flights of its Predator Unmanned Aircraft Systems out of Corpus Christi, Texas, marking an expansion of the flight and basing footprint of the department's fleet of Predators along the Southwest Border. In May, the Federal Aviation Administration approved Customs and Border Protection's plan to fly Predators along a portion of Texas' border with Mexico (Defense Daily, May 18). Now CBP can conduct Predator flights from a stretch of border beginning…

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