Marin questions legality of sanctuary cities at North Carolina Roundtable
Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin said while answering questions at Chimney Rock that he does not believe sanctuary cities are legal.
Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin is once again threatening international flights in sanctuary cities, a move that could forever change air travel.
The plan would cut off international flights at certain airports, paralyzing travel in some of the country’s largest cities, especially New York City.
Here’s what you need to know about why Marin wants to move forward with his plan and where LGA and JFK stand.
Marine, regarding suspension of international flights
The DHS secretary told Fox News this week that the agency is “developing a plan to say, ‘Look, these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats are not allowing us to do our jobs and enforce federal law, we shouldn’t be operating international flights to their cities.'”
This is not the first time Mr Marin has considered the idea of suspending international flights to certain cities.
Last month, he said he was considering withdrawing Customs and Border Protection agents from airports in sanctuary cities.
“If they’re a sanctuary city and they’re accepting international flights and we’re asking them to work with us at the airport, but once they get outside the airport, they’re not going to enforce their immigration policy. Maybe we need to take a really hard look at that.”
International flight operations threatened at JFK Airport and LGA
New York City has been designated a sanctuary city by the administration, meaning the nation’s largest city could face a deafening impact. Sanctuary cities are locations where the information provided to federal immigration officials is considered limited.
The Department of Justice’s list of sanctuary cities also includes:
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Berkeley
- boston
- chicago
- denver
- East Lansing, Michigan
- Hoboken, New Jersey
- Jersey City, New Jersey
- Los Angeles
- new orleans
- newark new jersey
- Paterson, New Jersey
- philadelphia
- portland oregon
- Rochester, New York
- seattle
- san francisco
What does it mean if a customs officer is taken from a sanctuary city’s airport?
Mullin said last month that if sanctuary cities don’t comply, authorities could stop Border Patrol processing international flights at some of the nation’s largest airports.
It wasn’t immediately clear how Mullin plans to implement the rule or whether that’s what DHS plans to implement.
