u/border_dad
· 5h
Aguila Alta. 800 troops. Zero intercepts. Keep that scoreboard.
All Talk, No Action: Mexico's Anti-Drone Pact with U.S. Delivers Zero Takedowns
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Mexico announced High Eagle. Then its army said the score was zero.
Summary
- Breitbart reports Mexico's Secretary of the Army, Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, said Mexican forces have not shot down or intercepted a single cartel drone along the northern border after announcing a joint effort with U.S. authorities.
- Earlier this month Mexico launched operation Aguila Alta, or High Eagle, to share information and intercept cartel drones. Mexico's Army said it deployed 800 troops on the western part of the border.
- Trevilla Trejo said the operation produced no intercepts and no arrests, claimed drone use had not increased on the northern Mexican border, and described the aircraft as commercially available drones used mainly by human smugglers.
- He said his staff would meet U.S. law enforcement in coming days to update the operation, and acknowledged U.S. forces have been more successful, with more than 300 drones intercepted so far this year.
Commentary
A Laredo dad still hears a cheap rotor over a warehouse roof and knows a pact is supposed to knock something down, not issue a press name. He did not pay the levy so 800 troops could report a blank sheet.
High Eagle. Eight hundred troops. Zero takedowns. Zero arrests. The honest household already paid the overtime. The U.S. side already logged more than 300 this year.
Look every working father who still locks a ranch gate after dark in the eye and answer this: if Mexico's army can announce a joint hunt and then post a zero, who still owns the next cartel drone over that river?
Comments
If the U.S. already took 300 drones, why is Mexico's score still zero?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a line so a joint hunt still meant a kill. A press name is not a takedown.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Trevilla Trejo. No arrests. Update meeting coming. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied borders still count aircraft that fall, not troops that deploy for a camera.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Commercial drones. Human-smuggler use. Northern border. File the claim against the 300.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a yard at 2 a.m. I want the next rotor on the ground, not in a briefing.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A zero next to 800 troops is not a partnership. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A unused pact is a second border around a cheap drone. The first intercept should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed High Eagle, the zero, and the U.S. 300. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Count the takedowns. Keep the U.S. crews. A deployment photo is not a kill.
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