The Department of Homeland Security is preparing plans to prevent inbound international flights from landing in sanctuary cities. The plans target cities where local law enforcement does not cooperate with federal immigration agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Trump administration has increased enforcement actions against undocumented immigrants and has deployed immigration agents and the National Guard in Democratic-run cities. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed DHS has arrested tens of thousands of gang members categorized as terrorists without providing evidence. He linked the flight plan idea to protests and alleged obstruction at Delaney Hall, a detention facility holding up to 1,000 immigrants, where local law enforcement is said not to assist federal agents. ICE agents used pepper spray on protesters outside the facility.
"Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said his department is drawing up plans to prevent inbound international flights from landing in what he called sanctuary cities. The Trump administration has been waging an ongoing crackdown on undocumented immigrants across the U.S. Officials have railed against what they call sanctuary cities, where local law enforcement have been instructed not to cooperate with federal immigration agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
"Mullin appeared on Tuesday's edition of Hannity on Fox News, where he boasted that DHS has arrested tens of thousands [of] gang members that are in categories of terrorists. He provided no evidence for his claim that such an enormous number of terrorists have been apprehended. The secretary then explained that DHS has been floating the idea of preventing international flights from arriving in certain cities, especially Newark, New Jersey, because of the ongoing protests at Delaney Hall, a detention facility holding up to 1,000 immigrants."
"He said local law enforcement is not assisting federal agents there. [T]he street, it belongs to the city, Mullin said. If it belonged to us, we would take care of it, but it belongs to the city, and they're barricading our employees from coming in and out of the facility Why are we processing international flights into the airport there? And we are currently, which we're not initiating it yet, but we're 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."
"On Monday, ICE agents fired pepper spray at protesters and Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) outside Delaney Hall. Kim said he was trying to broker a"
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