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Mullin 'drawing up plans' to halt international flight processing in 'sanctuary cities'

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27.05.2026

Mullin ‘drawing up plans’ to halt international flight processing in ‘sanctuary cities’

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said late Tuesday he is “drawing up plans” to end the processing of international flights in left-leaning cities, pointing to protests outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey as rationale.

Mullin’s comments follow weekend protests at Delaney Hall in Newark, where Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) was pepper sprayed during an interaction with immigration agents.

The secretary, appearing on Fox News, complained about protests on city streets outside the facility.

“They’re barricading our employees from coming in and out of the facility. Then, why are we processing international flights into the airport there? And I, we are currently — which we’re not initiating yet — but we’re currently drawing up plans to say, listen, these sanctuary cities where the local radical-left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our jobs and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities either,” he........

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