New DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has an interesting idea to force sanctuary cities and states to cooperate with the federal government over immigration.
How about losing customs officers at airports located in those cities?
Mullin suggested the move in an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News:
BAIER: The issue here is that you have states and cities that are sanctuary states and cities, and that’s part of the issue. It’s part of the problem. We saw it in Minnesota. How do you get around that?MULLIN: Well, I believe sanctuary cities, it’s not lawful. I don’t, I don’t think they’re able to do that. And so we’re going to take a hard look at this. This one area we may take a hard look at is some of these, some of these cities have international airports. If they are sanctuary cities, should they really be processing customs into into their city? If they’re a sanctuary city and they’re receiving international flights, and we’re asking them to partner with us at the airport, but once they walk out of the airport, they’re not going to enforce immigration policy. Maybe we need to have a really hard look at that, because we need to focus on cities that want to work with us.BAIER: So you’re saying that big cities that are sanctuary cities that have a big airport, they might lose their customs?MULLIN: Well, I’m saying we’re going to have to start prioritizing things at some point. Right now, remember, the Democrats are wanting defund Custom Border Patrol. Well, who processes those individuals when they walk off the plane? So I’m going to have to be forced to make hard decisions. Who’s willing to work with us and partner with us? Once again, I’m not going outside the policies that Congress passed for me, and we’re not trying to push those to some but we’re saying you got to partner with us.
WOW.
Sanctuary cities limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has made it known she won’t honor an ICE detainer for an accused murderer unless the agents have a judicial warrant, which they do not need.
Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York are sanctuary cities.
All of them have massive airports that receive plenty of international flights.
Minneapolis is a sanctuary city. I land in Minneapolis when I return from Poland in June.
The DHS funding bill circulating in Congress won’t address Mullin’s concerns in this clip.
I don’t know how these cities could cry to Congress over Mullin’s threat. It sounds like something Congress could not alleviate.
The cities would simply have to abandon their sanctuary status. Do you think the leaders would do that?
Trump Derangement Syndrome has rotted their brains. Sticking it to Trump is more important to them.
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