Sec. Mullin Says Drones Are His Top Security Concern, Mexican Cartels Are Using Sophisticated Technology to Move Drugs Across the Border

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MULLIN: "Number one counter UAS is a huge concern we have around the world It’s what I spent almost all week up until Friday dealing with going to, going and meeting with our industry leaders watching demonstrations, speaking at conferences Our counter UAS measures need help and we are, and and DHS is leading that because we encounter more drones on our on our southern border because of the cartels and the fight we’re having with them every single day trying to get drugs into the United States And we’re seeing new technologies that we’re having a hard time defeating right now counter UAS is a major issue We dealt with this in FIFA we interc, we encountered over 2,000 drones compensated 700 and made multiple arrests We have LA-28 coming up we have critical infrastructure that is open every single Friday night high school football game every parade, every college football game NFL football game, or any mass gathering we have we have to have counter UAS And we, There’s holes in our counter UAS ability to, to be kinetic and bring down real threats We’re working and that’s something that Secretary Duffy and I are working on every single day because counter UAS and to be kinetic in it creates airspace issues There’s a lot of coordination going on there we’re going to fix this problem but it is, Peter it’s my number one issue"