{"id":300,"date":"2026-06-03T23:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:09:49","slug":"mullin-says-dhs-would-obey-courts-if-they-were-not-politicized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Mullin Says DHS Would Obey Courts If They Were Not \u201cPoliticized\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with <\/span><\/i><i><span>a donation<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=298\">Judge Orders Reopening of Trump\u2019s IRS Lawsuit Over Fraud and Collusion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee in defense of the agency\u2019s $63 billion budget request. <\/p>\n<p>Democratic senators grilled Mullin about the budget, as well as Mullin\u2019s threats to shut down screenings of international flights in sanctuary cities. They also questioned whether he has implemented DHS reforms since the start of his tenure. <\/p>\n<p>Mullin became DHS secretary in March, after Kristi Noem was fired in the wake of backlash over immigration agents\u2019 fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis. Mullin vowed that he would keep DHS out of the headlines \u2014 but the agency\u2019s abuses have only continued to mount. <\/p>\n<p>In his opening statement, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) spoke about DHS\u2019s violations of the law and of court orders, the expansion of the budget to over 10 times its pre-Trump budget, and the ties between private companies like GEO Group and the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>When questioning Mullin directly, Murphy asked, \u201cCan you commit to us that if a court judges something ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is doing, something DHS is doing as illegal or unconstitutional, [and] tells you to stop, that you will comply with the court order?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mullin refused to answer directly, saying, \u201cI will tell you that we will never break the constitution, and we\u2019re not going to break the law, but we\u2019re going to enforce the nation\u2019s laws. We\u2019re gonna enforce the laws that you guys passed, and that we implement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murphy responded, \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t sound like the same thing as committing that you will obey a court order\u2026. I mean, I think it\u2019s an easy thing to say. Will you or will you not implement court orders?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we didn\u2019t think courts were politicized, then I would probably be able to answer that,\u201d Mullin said. \u201cBut we see courts over and over again that use their bench for their political opinion, not just the rule of law.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you\u2019ll pick and choose which court orders you obey based upon whether you believe that appointee to have a political agenda?\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=296\">Democrats Opposed to Tlaib\u2019s Resolution to Stop U.S. Joining War on Lebanon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t put words in my mouth,\u201d Mullin responded.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana\u2019s line of questioning took an entirely different tone, essentially praising DHS and ICE. Kennedy claimed in his questions that former President Joe Biden \u201cignored the immigration laws\u201d with the \u201cencouragement\u201d of some members of Congress, to which Mullin agreed. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said that Democrats \u201cbelieve in open borders,\u201d to which Mullin added that it\u2019s difficult to understand why Democrats \u201cwould allow that many people to come in and turn our streets into lawless cities and lawless towns.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In reality, Biden deported some 4 million people from the U.S. during his tenure, and followed in the footsteps of Donald Trump\u2019s first presidency rather than breaking from it. He also increased funding for ICE and helped expand ICE programs. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy and Mullin both made a point to smear protesters at Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey. Mullin denied that Delaney is overcrowded and that those detained are deprived of adequate medical care. In yet another threat, Mullin said that his agency will be combing through video footage of the protests, telling protesters: \u201cWe will eventually find you and arrest you and charge you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The protestors at Delaney Hall have been demonstrating in solidarity with immigrant detainees who are on hunger and labor strike, many of whom are being imprisoned in violation of their right to due process. <\/p>\n<p>Mullin then painted ICE agents as heroes, saying that agents \u201clove doing their job. They don\u2019t do it for the money, they do it because they\u2019re called to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday\u2019s hearing, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) asked Mullin about reforms to DHS in the wake of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the increasing abuses of ICE since Trump expanded the agency, saying she has yet to see any changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven now, we are seeing some outrageous proposals. You plan to withdraw CBP [Customs and Border Protection] officers from airports in cities that don\u2019t roll over for Trump,\u201d she said, referring to the threats Mullin repeated last week after protests continued at Delaney Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Her questions focused on emphasizing the need for reforms. But while Democrats have pushed for DHS to implement reforms to ICE before approving its budget requests, activists have called these reforms \u2014 which include requiring ICE agents to unmask and wear body cameras \u2014 \u201ctoothless\u201d measures that uphold an oppressive status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=294\">SCOTUS Allows Alabama to Use Voting Map Ruled Discriminatory by Lower Court<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Tuesday\u2019s Senate hearing, Democratic senators questioned Mullin about the DHS budget and ICE\u2019s continued abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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