News organizations, advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and even former FAA officials are sounding the alarm on what could be the “most sweeping prohibition on UAS [uncrewed aircraft system] activity across the United States ever imposed.”

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“[The TFR] seems to warn that anyone flying a drone anywhere in the country would be in violation if an ICE or Border Patrol ‘convoy’ decides to drive beneath them,” Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, wrote in his analysis Thursday. “Such a ‘drive-under’ is actually quite likely in places where thousands of immigration agents are rampaging through neighborhoods such as Minneapolis-St. Paul.”