Chris Christie rebukes Alejandro Mayorkas over NJ drones

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday that drones are flying over his house, too — and blasted Department of Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas for downplaying concerns about them.

Christie suggested that the lack of response from authorities, including Mayorkas, was to blame for the widespread panic over recent strange and unexplained sightings in the Garden State, New York and across the country.

“They’re not answering questions,” Christie said. ABC’s “This Week” George Stephanopoulos, host of federal officials.

Stephanopoulos said Mayorkas has said his department is “monitoring it, they haven’t seen any unusual activity, and they need more authority to shoot down drones if necessary”.

Christie said he agreed that the department needed more authority over the situation, but objected to Mayorkas’s claims that unidentified flying objects were not “unusual”.

“To say that this is not unusual activity is simply false!” Christy exclaimed. “I have lived in New Jersey my entire life. This is the first time that I have seen a drone over my house.”

Earlier in the programming, Mayorkas was a guest and downplayed Stephanopoulos’ talk of thousands of drone sightings, stating that “thousands of drones are flown in the United States every day.”

Mayorkas also noted that the Federal Aviation Administration changed its rules in 2023 and now allows drones to fly at night, meaning there may now be more spotting at night than before.

“This is the reality. But I want to assure the American public that we are on this. We are working in close coordination with state and local officials,” Mayorkas said.

Christie raised the issue of what he considered a non-answer, telling Stephanopoulos that people are so tired of not having any information about drones that they have started publicly asking him if he knows anything about them. Are.

“I was at a restaurant in Monmouth County on Friday night. People were coming up to me at the bar and saying, ‘Governor Murphy, you won’t tell me anything. “The president won’t tell me anything,” Christie said.

“We are used to receiving (information) so fast. If you don’t fill that void, all the conspiracy theories fill that void,” Christie said, calling out local Congressman Jeff Van Drew, who Insisted that the drones were coming from an Iranian mothership offshore.

The former governor said: “The Biden administration and state officials need to be more vocal and tell people what they are actually doing.”