America’s skies are now a wild west of drone chaos, leaving our borders, airliners, and critical infrastructure wide open—while bureaucrats twiddle their thumbs and criminals seize the advantage.
America’s Skies Are Open—And So Are the Doors to Disaster
Drone chaos has officially landed in America’s airspace. FAA data shows a jaw-dropping 26% spike in drone incursions into restricted zones in just the first quarter of this year. Houston and Phoenix airports, two of the nation’s busiest, have both reported multiple near-misses between drones and passenger jets in recent months. Anyone with common sense can see what’s coming—a catastrophic event that could have been prevented if Washington had acted with even a shred of urgency. Instead, we’re staring down the barrel of disaster with nothing but bureaucratic red tape and excuses standing between us and tragedy.
America’s skies are wide open to national security threats, drone expert warns: ‘We have no awareness’https://t.co/jF8ToCtnNa
— BREAKING NEWZ Alert (@MustReadNewz) July 28, 2025
Congress finally held hearings this May, but the warnings from drone experts were nothing new. Tom Walker, CEO of DroneUp, called for a centralized, real-time drone management system—something that should have been operational years ago. Instead, what do we get? Remote ID, a system so riddled with loopholes that criminals are laughing all the way to the border fence. Walker and countless aviation safety experts have been crystal clear: without real-time situational awareness, our skies are an open invitation for disaster, whether it’s from reckless hobbyists or bad actors intent on doing real harm.
Drone Lawlessness Fuels Criminal Enterprise and National Security Risks
No surprise, criminal organizations have already seized the opportunity. Cartels use drones to smuggle drugs, weapons, and contraband across the southern border with impunity. Border communities and prisons have become hotbeds for drone-enabled crime, as law enforcement struggles to keep pace with technology that’s moving at light speed. Department of Homeland Security officials warn that these drones aren’t just for spying—they’ve been weaponized for kinetic attacks, threatening both law enforcement and civilians. Meanwhile, the FAA and other agencies can barely keep up, hamstrung by outdated systems and a glaring lack of real-time enforcement tools.
Emergency responders aren’t immune. Drones have grounded firefighting operations, forced law enforcement helicopters into emergency landings, and come within feet of midair collisions with commercial airliners. The result? Delays, grounded flights, and a public left wondering when—not if—the next major disaster will strike. When drones can interfere with firefighting aircraft during a California wildfire, or nearly take down a police helicopter in Texas, it’s no longer just a nuisance. It’s a national emergency that’s being ignored at our peril.
Regulatory Paralysis Leaves Americans in Danger
Regulators have been outpaced and outmaneuvered at every turn. The FAA’s much-touted Remote ID system was supposed to bring accountability to the skies. Instead, it’s been exposed as toothless—easily overridden and offering zero real-time protection. Over a million violations of existing drone regulations have already been reported, but with no centralized database and no ability to track drones or pilots instantly, violators face little risk of getting caught. Enforcement is a patchwork mess, and the result has been chaos in the very skies Americans rely on for travel, commerce, and emergency response.
The lack of drone countermeasures by public safety agencies.
Hard conversations about drones equipped with explosives represent a significant threat to public safety for several reasons:
Drones are widely available and relatively affordable, making them accessible not only to… pic.twitter.com/RrkiCQ2Jjf
— Bill Partridge
(@ChiefBPartridge) July 28, 2025
Industry leaders are practically begging for common-sense solutions. Walker and others propose a phased roll-out of real-time drone identification, starting with critical infrastructure and expanding outward. But for now, policymakers remain stuck in reactive mode—responding to the latest close call or headline-grabbing incident, rather than building the proactive systems needed to protect Americans. The longer this paralysis lasts, the greater the risk to everyone who flies, works, or lives in the shadow of our increasingly unpredictable airspace.
Expert Warnings and Public Outrage Demand Real Solutions Now
Aviation safety experts from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Associated Press have documented the surge in near-misses and the inadequacy of our current approach. The numbers don’t lie: drones now account for the majority of airspace safety incidents near major U.S. airports. Legal scholars note that education and enforcement have failed to keep pace with adoption, and that the regulatory void is being filled by criminal opportunists and reckless operators. This is not a “future problem”—it’s a crisis that’s happening now, with the risk of a major incident looming larger every day.
There is a real and significant threat of drone attacks in the U.S., with experts warning of attacks on critical infrastructure, including chemical warfare, according to witnesses appearing before a House committee Tuesday afternoon.https://t.co/v1M5UiXU0a
— ABC 7 Amarillo (@ABC7Amarillo) July 16, 2025
Congress and the administration owe it to the American people to stop dithering and start leading. The technology exists. The solutions are clear. But until they get serious about real-time tracking, tough enforcement, and closing the loopholes that criminals exploit, every American who steps onto a plane, lives near critical infrastructure, or relies on emergency services remains at risk. If protecting our skies and our citizens isn’t a top priority, what is?
Sources:
Fox News: Drone near-misses surge at busiest US airports amid rise in unauthorized flights
Associated Press: Drones pose increasing risk to airliners near major US airports
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