{"id":164529,"date":"2026-02-14T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164529\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:00:08","slug":"faa-briefly-closes-el-paso-air-space-after-mexican-cartel-drone-breach-the-presidential-prayer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164529\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Briefly Closes El Paso Air Space After Mexican Cartel Drone Breach \u2013 The Presidential Prayer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"730\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/drones-730x438.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-wise-post-thumb size-wise-post-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense was able to address the situation to reopen the airspace.<\/p>\n<p>The airspace around the El Paso International Airport in Texas was temporarily closed earlier this week after Mexican cartel drones breached its airspace.\n<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated that the Department of Defense \u201cacted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region.\u201d\u00a0The number of unmanned drones involved was not disclosed.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) originally had announced that it was going to ground all commercial, cargo, and general aviation flights in and out of the El Paso airport for ten days due to \u201cspecial security reasons.\u201d However, they lifted that decision hours after announcing it.\n<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0airline officials indicated that the closure may have been conducted out of an abundance of caution since the FAA could not predict where the drones would fly.\n<\/p>\n<p>As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us\u2026<\/p>\n<p>For Secretary Duffy as he oversees the Transportation Department and its many agencies.<br \/>\nFor Secretary Hegesth as he heads the Department of Defense and national security responses.<br \/>\nFor Administrator Bedford as he leads the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color\"> Sources: Marine Corps Times, CBS News\n<\/p>\n<p>RECENT PRAYER UPDATES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Defense was able to address the situation to reopen the airspace. The airspace around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-164529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}