Last year the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general wrote a scathing indictment of the department’s use of drones to patrol US borders.
With its fleet of 10 Predator drones, the department’s border protection unit is one of the few arms of the US government that has permission to operate drones in American air space.
According to the inspector general, the DHS had not allocated the resources to either operate the drones safely or to maintain them. As a result, the aircraft flew only one-third of the hours that had been expected.
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