Donald Trump must go on offense to counter China‘s infiltration of the southern border says a top border hawk Republican who reveals what the president-elect will do in his first days back in the White House.
House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green exclusively previewed with DailyMail.com what rump and his team will do to shuffle priorities at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in their first days.
Those priorities include swiftly enacting Trump’s sweeping deportation plans and re-examining China’s role in disrupting U.S. life through cyber attacks and the fentanyl trade.
Green says the incoming administration is poised to hit the ground running with deportations immediately, adding there are over 1.5 million individuals already due for removal.
Trump tapped MAGA firebrand South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to lead DHS and she’ll have assistance from his new ‘border czar’ Tom Homan.
The chairman says the new Trump administration will stop China’s involvement in using the southern border to traffic in deadly fentanyl. Trump will also finally hit back after China’s countless cyber attacks attacks on American citizens and infrastructure in the past four years, he adds.
‘I mean, they’ve done plenty to pick a fight,’ Green said of China.
‘They’ve killed half a million Americans with fentanyl,’ he said. ‘I’m sorry this stuff is coming from China, period, all the precursors, they killed half a million Americans.’
‘And we’ve got to get on the cyber security defense. And honestly, although it’s not in homeland’s purview, but it’s time we go on the offensive,’ he revealed.
House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green exclusively shared with DailyMail.com what President-elect Donald Trump and his team will do to shuffle priorities at the Department of Homeland Security
Trump tapped MAGA firebrand South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to lead DHS
Green said China has conducted sophisticated cyber attacks against the U.S. under President Joe Biden’s leadership
The Republican reasoned that if China is taking actions against the U.S., America should be retaliating.
‘I mean, if China’s going to get inside our infrastructure and get inside our telecommunications and spy on us and conduct espionage on military bases with the cyber all that, it’s time we time we take action.’
And there’s plenty of areas for the U.S. to land a counter-punch on China, Green said.
‘It could look like a lot of different things, tariffs, sanctions, our own cyber work,’ he told DailyMail.com. ‘I would put the NSA and Cyber Command up against anybody in the world.’
‘I think they’re better than anybody in the world. Let’s show them what we got.’
As for China, Green said, ‘If they want to pick a fight, okay.’
He specifically noted the salt typhoon operation, a cyber espionage group backed by the Chinese Chinese government that has conducted sophisticated cyber attacks against the U.S. in recent years.
Earlier this year it was reported the group hacked into U.S. telecommunication networks and gained access to critical information on American citizens.
House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green said Trump and the incoming administration must go on offense against the Chinese after they have helped facilitate the U.S. fentanyl trade that has lead to the overdose deaths of half a million Americans
Noem will have assistance from his new ‘border czar’ Tom Homan
Green also suggested that over 1.5 million migrants in the U.S. illegally will be ready to deport on the first day of Trump’s administration
And there’s plenty of areas for the U.S. to land a counter-punch on China, Green said
Green said he’s thrilled about Trump and Homan’s plans to act quickly to remove over 1.5 million migrants in the U.S. illegally.
Trump and his incoming border czar told countless voters on the campaign trail they plan on conducting the ‘largest mass deportation in U.S. history,’ and Green says he’s excited to have an executive branch ‘that’s actually going to enforce the law.’
Trump and Homan have said that deportation operations will start on ‘day one’ of the incoming administration.
‘It’s about securing and protecting Americans and securing our neighborhoods,’ the chairman said. ‘I mean, that’s exciting, and we’re going to facilitate those folks being removed from the country.’
‘There are court orders to remove well over a million people,’ Green told DailyMail.com, adding that DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas has opted not to deal with the pending orders.
‘They’re going to start there, and then the 600,000 felons that were allowed into the country by Mayorkas and Biden are going to be removed,’ Green continued.
Earlier this year Green pushed House GOP leaders to hold a vote to impeach Mayorkas. It passed, but the Senate later killed the articles against the DHS boss.
