Late-night CBP helicopter ride-along shows advanced tech used to apprehend migrants

Fox News took an exclusive late-night chopper thrust implicit the El Paso, Texas, sector, offering a glimpse into U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations to seizure migrants trying to evade, and the challenges agents look each night. 

Our squad got a first-hand look astatine the precocious exertion that CBP uses to observe migrants and smugglers.

Agents with the agency's Air and Marine Operations wore nighttime imaginativeness goggles arsenic we flew supra 1 of the busiest areas for migrant traffic. 

"All right, those 2 are crawling away," 1 of the agents said. 

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Fox News takes an exclusive look astatine the borderline successful the El Paso Sector with Customs and Border Protection successful El Paso, Texas. (Fox News)

The chopper was equipped with a high-tech camera designed for nighttime surveillance. The agents monitored a unrecorded feed, enhanced by a mapping software, allowing them to pinpoint the nonstop locations of the migrants. 

We watched arsenic immoderate migrants chopped holes successful the borderline partition and squeezed through, portion others hid down brush, rolling connected the godforsaken to gaffe past authorities. Little did they know, we were with agents 5 miles distant and inactive capable to way their each determination from the skies and successful the transportation black. 

Agents besides utilized lasers, which are invisible to the bare eye. The lasers tin fastener onto targets, giving precise coordinates.  

The Air and Marine agents stayed successful changeless connection with Border Patrol agents connected the crushed and were capable to usher them to the locations.

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Fox News took an exclusive chopper thrust with Customs and Border Protection successful El Paso, Texas. (Fox News)

Our camera unit connected the crushed captured respective of the apprehensions, including that of a 19-year-old from Mexico and a antheral from Guatemala.

Not lone are encounters down successful the El Paso Sector, but agents archer Fox News the fig of "gotaways," which are migrants who evade capture, has besides decreased. On Wednesday, Border Patrol agents said they had zero gotaways, which was the archetypal clip successful a fewer years. 

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Agents besides pointed retired the caller beingness of Border Patrol and National Guard vehicles stationed successful blistery spots. Prior to the Trump administration, Border Patrol agents were stretched truthful bladed that they said they didn’t person the manpower to person a beardown beingness successful these captious areas.