Drones Prove Mettle in Mexican Drug War Also -- U.S. Leads to Arrests

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two Border Patrol agents walked by a patch of brush on a remote ranch and saw nothing. But 19,000 feet overhead in the night sky, a Predator unmanned aircraft kept its heat-sensing eye on the spot.

In an operations center about 80 miles away, all eyes were on a suspicious dark cluster on a video screen. Moments later, the drone operators triggered the craft's infrared beam and pointed the agents directly to the undergrowth where two silent figures were hiding.

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Drones Prove Mettle in Mexican Drug War Also -- U.S. Leads to Arrests

That mission was just another night out for a Predator program that is playing a larger role in the nation's border security as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection adds to its force of unmanned ai...

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