{"id":261177,"date":"2026-04-22T14:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261177\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:04:44","slug":"homeland-security-secretary-visits-el-paso-border-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261177\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security secretary visits El Paso, border area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"357\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/87e80f58f4c164e8dea87c787a3d7bfd.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security secretary visits El Paso, border area<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was in El Paso for part of his visit to the southern border last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Photos on his social media accounts showed the El Paso landscape.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/978025d13f20bf39f0d0e4a874770b00.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"357\" height=\"326\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5b884ad542b882d4364622d1021aa985.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"393\" height=\"478\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f8e907e757fe6915b0bc0d108835a4eb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI got to meet with the men and women of (Customs and Border Protection), who protect our homeland,\u201d he posted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThanks to these patriots and to President Trump, we have the most secure border in American history,\u201d Mullin wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He did not give details on how long he stayed in El Paso or where else he went.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. 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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homeland Security secretary visits El Paso, border area EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12172,138,140,139,2946,498,71979,7678,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-261177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-customs-and-border-protection","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-headlines","11":"tag-el-paso-news","12":"tag-homeland-security","13":"tag-ktsm","14":"tag-markwayne-mullin","15":"tag-president-trump","16":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}