You can believe Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when he tells you that the drones you are seeing are not really drones.

He has always been forthright with the American people. Yeah.

“We believe that they are cases of mistaken identity where drones are actually small aircraft and people are misidentifying them,” Mayorkas said.

“We have not seen anything unusual,” Mayorkas told Wolf Blitzer at CNN. “We have not seen any unusual activity. We know of no threat. We know of no nefarious activity.”

In other words, people reporting mysterious drone sightings around the country are just not seeing what they are seeing, Mayorkas maintains, just as they did not see the millions of illegal immigrants who entered the country under his watch.

“The border is secure. The border is closed,” he repeated more times than anyone can count, just as he let more criminal illegal immigrants into the country than people can count.

You almost expect him now to say, “The sky is secure too.”

Take your pick. You can believe Mayorkas when it comes to “Dronegate” — the swarming of drones spotted in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and other states that he says are harmless or don’t exist — or you can believe your “lyin’ eyes.”

Besides, even though he oversees the protection of the homeland, he maintains that there is nothing he can do about the drones. It is Congress’ fault anyway, he said. “We have gone to Congress repeatedly asking for more authority to counter drone activity,” he said.

Besides, the skies are secure, just like the border, according to Mayorkas, even if a Chinese spy balloon was able to cross the U.S for a week in 2023 gathering intelligence before public pressure forced the Biden administration to shoot it down off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C, after its mission was accomplished.

If the U.S. can shoot down a Chinese spy balloon, why can’t it take down a drone or two that are described to be a big as SUVs?

“We can’t just shoot a drone out of the sky,” Mayorkas said. He said, “It’s not as though anyone can just take down a drone in the sky. That, in and of itself, would be dangerous.”

It might indeed be harmful and dangerous to shoot down a drone, but not nearly as harmful as Mayorkas’ policies have been to the country.

Outside of Joe Biden, Mayorkas is one of the last men in America to give you a straight answer.

Another whopper wonder would be John Kirby, the spokesman for the National Security Council, who earlier painted the 2021 botched and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan as a success, despite the needless deaths of 13 U.S. service members who were blown up by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport.

It was a success, all right, a success for the Taliban.

In a classic case of stonewalling — or “dronewalling”— Kirby said, “We assess that the sightings to date to include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed wing aircraft, helicopters, and even stars that were mistakenly reported as drones.”

In other words, whatever is going on in the skies over U.S. cities it has nothing to do with the Biden administration, which nobody believes, including Donald Trump, the incoming president.

Trump, along with thousands of residents of New Jersey, New York and elsewhere, who have been photographing and posting drone sightings nightly, do not believe that the Biden administration doesn’t know anything about the droning of America.

Trump said he believed the Biden and the Pentagon were hiding information from the public.

“The government knows what is happening,” Trump said at a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Monday.

“Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it’s a garage, they can go right into that garage. They know where it (they) came from and where it (they) went and for some reason they don’t want to comment.

“And I think they’d be better off saying what it is. Our military knows and our president knows. And for some reason they want to keep people in suspense,” Trump said.

Dronegate — Joe Biden’s legacy.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com