WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin doubled down Tuesday on threats to halt immigration and customs processing at international airports in New York, New Jersey and other jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with his department.
Mullin told Fox News host Sean Hannity that federal immigration agents have no obligation to assist in the customs process if so-called “sanctuary” jurisdiction officials won’t let “the worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens be deported.
“They’re barricading our employees from coming in and out of the facility, then why are we processing international flights into the airport there?” asked Mullin on “Hannity.”
“We are currently drawing up plans to say, ‘Listen, in these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities either because they don’t want us to enforce immigration,’” added the DHS boss.
In Newark, anti-ICE protesters have been blockading Delaney Hall detention center — and clashing with federal agents — for several days to protest allegedly poor conditions inside the facility.
Both Mullin and border czar Tom Homan have denied mistreatment of any migrants at the 1,000-bed center.
