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Alejandro Mayorkas reveals why federal government can't shoot down mysterious New Jersey drones
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 12/15/2024 9:44:24 AM PST by algore

The federal government does not have the authority to take out drones spotted over New York and Jew Jersey, according to the head of the Department of Homeland Security.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says that authorities need to be expanded for DHS and its partners to 'incapacitate' these mystery drones.

It comes after President-elect Donald Trump suggested that the unmanned aircraft be shot down.

'Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge,' Trump posted on Friday amid outcry over the ongoing mystery.

'I don't think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!' the former and future president wrote on his social media site Truth Social.

Asked whether this was a possibility, Mayorkas told ABC News on Sunday that in order to be able to take more action, his agency needs to be given more powers.

'With respect of the ability to incapacitate those drones, we are limited in our authorities,' Mayorkas told This Week host George Stephanopoulos.

'We have certain agencies within the Department of Homeland Security that can do that and outside our department,' he added. 'But we need those authorities expanded, as well.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drone; drones; newsfromgroversmill
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To: algore

NATIONAL SECURITY


21 posted on 12/15/2024 10:05:01 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: algore

NATIONAL SECURITY


22 posted on 12/15/2024 10:05:32 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: algore

“Jew Jersey”?


23 posted on 12/15/2024 10:05:57 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: logi_cal869

It’s because the drones don’t really exist physically.


24 posted on 12/15/2024 10:08:24 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: algore

because it’s just Drone Hysteria ? LOL


25 posted on 12/15/2024 10:10:05 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Sacajaweau
after watching that balloon drift over our country, we finally shot it down. It didn't take an act of Congress or a new law...all it took was an order from the President.

Bingo!

Head of DHS (fall guy) Mayorkas concedes ...We have certain agencies within the Department of Homeland Security that can do that... .

But then he explained he needed more authority from Congress.

Perhaps his boss was reprimanded for shooting down the Chinese "weather balloon" and is now taking the easy way out?

26 posted on 12/15/2024 10:10:49 AM PST by frog in a pot (If close to 1/2 of American voters will vote for Kamala, we have problems geater than any election.)
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To: algore

algore wrote: “Well since the Govt does not have the authority to protect us against enemies foreign or domestic we should just abolish it then ?”

I don’t think we was speaking for DoD.


27 posted on 12/15/2024 10:12:26 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Jim Noble

Moron Mayorkas is the same clown stating for years that the
Southern Border is Secure. He is a very dangerous man in the US Gov’t.


28 posted on 12/15/2024 10:15:32 AM PST by chopperk (airhi)
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To: algore

“Mayorkas says that authorities need to be expanded”

Since when has that stopped them.


29 posted on 12/15/2024 10:16:29 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: algore

Uh, how about NO! They have too much power already.


30 posted on 12/15/2024 10:21:05 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Mayorkas is only Cuban by birth. He left Cuba as an infant and his family is Jewish.

Cubans are one of the few immigrant groups that reliably vote GOP, and heavily broke (~58%) for Trump in 2024.


31 posted on 12/15/2024 10:23:10 AM PST by RonaldusMagnus-DonaldusMagnus
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To: algore

So...Mayor’s wants MORE authority over citizens? Wait a minute. Is this all a wild psyop to get more power over citizens???


32 posted on 12/15/2024 10:24:55 AM PST by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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To: algore

Fricking incredible: “We can’t shoot them down!” response.


33 posted on 12/15/2024 10:26:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If history teaches us anything: It's that history rarely teaches anything. (outofNAsalt))
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To: algore

Won’t necessarily disagree. This is a DoD task, not DHS.

Shoot ‘em down.

Unless the truth is they are radiation detection drones looking for dirty bombs...or worse...that may have been smuggled into the country.


34 posted on 12/15/2024 10:27:27 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: algore

This is why we have The Second Amendment.


35 posted on 12/15/2024 10:27:42 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: algore

After the Supreme Court ruled in the Trump immunity case, the Democrats were talking like the president could murder citizens if he called it an official. Now, they are saying they can’t even capture an unidentified drone. I’m pretty sure they don’t want to investigate it. I wonder why.


36 posted on 12/15/2024 10:29:52 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

37 posted on 12/15/2024 10:33:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: SE Mom

*Mayorkas

Hate autocorrect


38 posted on 12/15/2024 10:33:54 AM PST by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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To: Aria

No...likely Cuba, the traitor’s home country.


39 posted on 12/15/2024 10:34:45 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: RonaldusMagnus-DonaldusMagnus
I said he was from Cuba.

How what I said wrong?

40 posted on 12/15/2024 10:39:00 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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