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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin suggested Monday that he may retaliate against sanctuary cities by not allowing customs officers in their airports to admit international travelers.
Mullin, in an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, grumbled about how his department has to deal with cities that limit or rule out cooperating with federal authorities attempts to enforce immigration law.
Why is the Department of Homeland Security such a political hotbed? All they are doing is trying to keep our streets safe, trying to keep our nation secure, trying to keep bad actors from having terrorist attacks on the homeland, he said. It should be something we all get behind.
Mullin, who took over the embattled department late last month after Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem, added that he didnt believe it was lawful for sanctuary cities to exist. Therefore, he said, his department may do something to the major airports in them.
One area we may take a hard look at is [how] some of these cities have international airports. If they are a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city? he asked.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-cowboy-markwayne-mullin-plotting-to-sabotage-americas-biggest-airports/
displacedvermoter
(4,590 posts)AZJonnie
(3,726 posts)The policy of the city vis-a-vis whether it's a sanctuary has nothing to do with Customs at the airport, which is staffed by either Federal workers or Federal contractors. The two subjects have nothing to do with each other, but hey, it's red-meat for the knuckle-dragging maga crew. There's almost nothing they hate more than the dreaded blue sanctuary cities.
Guess what Billy Joe Jim Bob? The Constitution doesn't demand that local LEO are obligated to function as immigration enforcement officers. Ergo "Sanctuary Cities" are not "illegal", not unless they are actively impeding actual immigration agents from doing their jobs. Which they never seem to do, even when the assholes are blatantly violating local laws
Funny how it's never "Federal Overreach" or "violating State's Rights" when it involves a GQP bugaboo, isn't it?
Bread and Circuses
(2,097 posts)will be happy to tell their employees to take a Greyhound when traveling in the USA.
Or driving to a RED Republican airport hub to fly overseas.
NO Problem! All I service the the orange Demi-God.
Lonestarblue
(13,495 posts)We all knew that Mullin would be no better than Noem. He may be even worse.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,201 posts)I still say that at least ICE Barbie can get out of a wet paper bag with a tear started...
QueerDuck
(1,752 posts)The rightwing christian nationalist takeover of the country
BidenRocks
(3,293 posts)They got butt hurt and were looking for Second Amendment solutions for wanting health care.
It is time to organize local groups to be prepared, (for natural or unatural) disasters!
Simeon Salus
(1,640 posts)Javaman
(65,788 posts)pfitz59
(12,751 posts)Plumbing new depths of depravity. SEATAC and others will not 'shut down' if he takes away Customs and TSA.