{"id":245301,"date":"2026-05-27T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245301\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:58:11","slug":"dhs-head-markwayne-mullin-doubles-down-on-plan-to-cut-customs-processing-from-sanctuary-city-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245301\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS head Markwayne Mullin doubles down on plan to cut customs processing from ‘sanctuary city’ airports"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin\u00a0doubled down\u00a0Tuesday on threats to halt immigration and customs processing at international airports<\/a> in New York, New Jersey and other jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with his department.<\/p>\n

Mullin told Fox News host Sean Hannity that federal immigration agents have no obligation to assist in the customs process if so-called \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdiction officials won\u2019t let \u201cthe worst of the worst\u201d criminal illegal aliens be deported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re barricading our employees from coming in and out of the facility, then why are we processing international flights into the airport there?\u201d asked Mullin on \u201cHannity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin speaks at an event at ICE headquarters on May 13, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Passengers arrive at JFK Airport on May 22, 2026. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are currently drawing up plans to say, \u2018Listen, in these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats aren\u2019t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn\u2019t be processing international flights into their cities either because they don\u2019t want us to enforce immigration,\u2019\u201d added the DHS boss.<\/p>\n

Up to 50 million international passengers came through JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International airports in 2025.<\/p>\n

Mullin has pushed for the policy over the objections of airline industry executives and trade associations \u2014 as well as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have people from around the world and around the country that need to be able to fly into all different kinds of places,\u201d Duffy said at a House Budget Committee hearing last Thursday. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t shut down air travel in a state that doesn\u2019t agree with our politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

A traveler hands her passport to an airline agent at Los Angeles International Airport. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The US Travel Association and Airlines for America have also panned the proposal, which also would stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from processing international travelers at airports in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.<\/p>\n

In Newark, anti-ICE protesters have been blockading Delaney Hall detention center<\/a> \u2014 and clashing with federal agents \u2014 for several days to protest allegedly poor conditions inside the facility.<\/p>\n

Both Mullin and border czar Tom Homan have denied mistreatment of any migrants at the 1,000-bed center.<\/p>\n

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cFACT CHECK: there is NO HUNGER STRIKE at Delaney Hall. There are no subprime conditions,\u201d DHS\u00a0posted Tuesday on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cALL detainees are provided with 3 meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, toiletries, and opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homan did caution that the Trump administration would seek a court order to force feed detainees if they started such a strike.<\/p>\n

The border czar also indicated that the Trump administration would soon be operating government-owned detention centers on federal land to avoid clashes with local jurisdictions.<\/p>\n

Those states, cities and localities that have refused to cooperate with federal immigration authorities have often ignored so-called \u201cdetainer\u201d requests to hold criminal illegal immigrants so they can be arrested and deported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin\u00a0doubled down\u00a0Tuesday on threats to halt immigration and customs processing at international…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3347,2300,5459,64127,9,56,63,65,64,87,10227,3736,14665,58],"class_list":["post-245301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-airports","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-markwayne-mullin","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-sanctuary-cities","tag-sean-duffy","tag-us-customs-and-border-protection","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}