Fox’s Bill Melugin has been reporting about the crisis at the border for months. We’ve shown you some of his incredible work before, with the CBP just opening the gates at different points and allowing people to walk in and onto buses to be processed.

Yesterday, he posted incredible pictures of the thousands of illegal aliens who crossed the border and were congregating under the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas waiting to be processed by the CBP.

BREAKING: Our drone is back over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX. Per source, the number of migrants waiting to be processed has now swelled to approx 8,200. It was 4,000 yesterday AM. Doubled in one day. BP overwhelmed, & I’m told situation is “out of control” @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/ThJJJ0JWCT

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 16, 2021

Law enforcement source on the ground at the bridge this morning just sent me this video showing the situation there. I’m told a large majority of the migrants are Haitians and more are crossing into the US and arriving at the bridge by the minute. BP w/ limited manpower @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/dHWCrhFikq

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 16, 2021

NEW: Another stunning image from our @FoxNews drone team showing the situation at the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, where a law enforcement source tells me there are more than 8,000 migrants waiting to be processed by Border Patrol after crossing illegally into the U.S. pic.twitter.com/opey70NBNt

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 16, 2021

Melugin later posted there were actually 9,300 people under the bridge, that it has increased from 4,000 the day before.

Governor Greg Abbott then announced he was closing six points of entry at the request of the CBP because they could no longer control the situation. But then he announced that six hours later, the Biden Administration pulled that back and was going to let the border be overwhelmed, handling this as badly as the withdrawal in Afghanistan.

UPDATE: Governor Abbott has released a new statement saying the federal government initially reached out to Texas to help with closing points of entry at the border, but reversed their decision six hours later, and “flip flopped to a strategy that abandons border security.” pic.twitter.com/IZHe1fbu8x

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 16, 2021

This, of course, was just part of the overall horrible picture at the border with illegal entry.

Fox News reports that more than 208,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the border in August – a 317% INCREASE from 2020. pic.twitter.com/1A6gJFQJmK

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 15, 2021

Now, obviously, this looks pretty bad for the Biden Administration in addition to all the damage and issues it’s creating. So what did they do in response? Did they try to cure it?

Of course not. Fox’s Bill Melugin reported that the FAA then suddenly wouldn’t allow Fox to fly their drones over the bridge for the next two weeks. So if you don’t like what the pictures are showing and you don’t want Americans to see them, you shut down the journalists reporting them, you don’t actually try to solve the problem.

NEW: We’ve learned that the FAA just implemented a two week TFR (Temporary Flight Restrictions) over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, meaning we can no longer fly our FOX drone over it to show images of the thousands of migrants. FAA says “special security reason”. pic.twitter.com/aJrjAPO2Pz

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 17, 2021

UPDATE: FAA statement

“The Border Patrol requested the temporary flight restriction due to drones interfering with law enforcement flights on the border. As with any temporary flight restriction, media is able to call the FAA to make requests to operate in the area.”@FoxNews

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 17, 2021

Can we say Stalin yet? Remove the pictures you don’t like? “Special security reason” = it makes Biden look bad? Sorry, I don’t buy the excuse. Melugin said they had been covering the border for months and hadn’t had an issue with the drone before.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called out the madness on Hannity and he wasn’t buying the excuse either.

After Fox News drone footage of THOUSANDS of illegal aliens was released, it looks like the political operatives at the Biden White House saw the footage and decided that’s the last thing they wanted reported.

Now the FAA says, "Please, no journalists allowed." It's ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/LyoBASIcrA

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 17, 2021

Cruz updated the numbers that Melugin had given earlier. It was 10,503 people last night.

I am on the ground in Del Rio, Texas tonight. As of this moment, there are 10,503 illegal aliens under the Del Rio International Bridge.

This manmade disaster was caused by Joe Biden. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/VpzkrH1zyb

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 17, 2021

The Biden people probably figured two weeks would be enough to kill the attention on the story.

Of course, Biden being Biden, this move is likely backfiring and bringing even more attention to the incredible pictures.