Donald Trump must go on the offensive to counter China’s infiltration at the southern border, a Republican border hawk says, revealing what the president-elect will do in his first days back in the White House.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green discussed exclusively with DailyMail.com what Trump and his team will do in their first days to shift priorities at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
These priorities include quickly implementing Trump’s sweeping deportation plans and reexamining China’s role in disrupting American life through cyberattacks and the fentanyl trade.
Green says the new administration is ready to start deportations immediately, adding that more than 1.5 million people already need to be removed.
Trump has appointed MAGA South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to lead DHS and she will get help from his new “border czar” Tom Homan.
The chairman says the new Trump administration will end China’s involvement in using its southern border to trade deadly fentanyl. Trump will also finally hit back after China’s numerous cyber attacks on US citizens and infrastructure over the past four years, he added.
“I mean, they’ve done enough to argue,” Green said of China.
“They killed half a million Americans with fentanyl,” he said. “I’m sorry this stuff comes from China, period, all the precursors killed half a million Americans.”
“And we need to get started on cybersecurity defense. And honestly, even though it is not within the purview of the homeland, it is time for us to go on the offensive,” he revealed.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green shared exclusively with DailyMail.com what President-elect Donald Trump and his team will do to shift priorities at the Department of Homeland Security
Trump tapped MAGA South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to lead DHS
Green said China has carried out sophisticated cyber attacks against the US under President Joe Biden
The Republican reasoned that if China takes action against the US, America should retaliate.
“I mean, if China wants to penetrate our infrastructure and penetrate our telecommunications and spy on us and conduct espionage on military bases with all that, it’s time for us to take action.”
And there are plenty of areas where the US can counter-attack China, Green said.
“It could look like a lot of different things: tariffs, sanctions, our own cyber work,” he told DailyMail.com. “I would pit the NSA and Cyber Command against anyone in the world.”
“I think they’re better than anyone in the world. Let’s show them what we’ve got.’
As for China, Green said, “If they want to argue, fine.”
He specifically pointed to the Salt Typhoon Operation, a cyber espionage group backed by China’s government, which has carried out sophisticated cyber attacks against the US in recent years.
Earlier this year it was reported that the group had hacked US telecommunications networks and gained access to critical information about US citizens.
House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green said Trump and the new administration must take action against the Chinese after they helped facilitate the U.S. fentanyl trade, which has led to the overdose deaths of half a million Americans.
Noem gets help from his new ‘border czar’ Tom Homan
Green also suggested that more than 1.5 million migrants in the U.S. illegally will be ready for deportation on the first day of the Trump administration.
And there are plenty of areas where the US can counter-attack China, Green said
Green said he is excited about Trump and Homan’s plans to move quickly to remove more than 1.5 million migrants illegally from the US.
Trump and his new border czar told scores of voters along the way that they plan to carry out the “largest mass deportation in American history,” and Green says he’s happy with an executive “that’s actually going to enforce the law.”
Trump and Homan have said deportation operations will begin on “day one” of the new 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 get those people deported.”
“There are court orders to remove well over a million people,” Green told DailyMail.com, adding that DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas has chosen not to address the pending orders.
“They’re going to start there, and then the 600,000 criminals that Mayorkas and Biden let into the country will be removed,” Green continued.
Earlier this year, Green urged Republican Party leaders to hold a vote to impeach Mayorkas. It passed, but the Senate later overturned the articles against the DHS chief.