Mullin, Homan Vow 'Zero Change' on Border Enforcement After Midterms

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown will not change after Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in last week’s midterm elections. “Amnesty will never be on the table,” Mullin said Tuesday night on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” according to Fox News, which reported that he promised “zero change” to enforcement.

Mullin said the department has been deporting roughly 3,600 people a day and has no plans to slow down, Fox News reported. “We haven’t slowed down at all. We’ve reprioritized what we’re doing by going after the worst of the worst, by getting the murderers and the rapists and child predators and drug bankers and cartel members,” he said, according to Fox News.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is making it clear that Democrats taking control of Congress won’t change the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Speaking with @IngrahamAngle , Mullin vowed “zero change” to enforcement efforts, saying DHS continues deporting roughly… pic.twitter.com/d140Lvf05Q

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Homan: ‘The White House Is Bright Red’

White House border czar Tom Homan delivered a similar message in a separate Fox News appearance Wednesday. “The White House is bright red,” Homan said, according to a Fox News post on X, which reported that he said the administration is not changing course on the southern border regardless of what happens politically.

Homan also blamed the Biden administration for renewed migrant caravan activity, calling it “the Biden effect,” and said a shift in congressional control won’t stop President Trump’s border enforcement, Fox News reported on X. “The same laws we’ve been enforcing in the last two years, we’re going to enforce for the next two years,” Homan said, according to Fox News.

Mullin argued on Fox News that strict enforcement is a matter of national security. “You can’t have a secured nation, and you can’t have a secured city if you don’t know who’s in your country,” he said, according to Fox News. He also said he does not trust Democrats to negotiate in good faith and pointed to the president’s veto. “The president has made it very clear he controls the veto. So if they were to send something over that the president and the Republicans don’t agree with, he can veto it, and he will veto it,” Mullin said, Fox News reported.

Arrests Continue as Trump Signals Openness to a Deal

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that immigration arrests have continued nationwide since the election, with advocates reporting arrests from California to Michigan to Massachusetts. The AP noted that ICE has not released numbers.

After the midterms, Trump said his immigration crackdown may have been “too tough” and suggested it was time to sit down with Democrats, according to the AP. “I’d love to do something on immigration,” Trump said in a CBS interview recorded Friday, the AP reported. Hours later, he named Stephen Miller, the architect of his immigration agenda, as his new chief of staff, according to the AP.

Mullin wrote in an online post the day after the election that “deportations will continue,” the AP reported, adding that ICE takes no days off.

Democrats Plan Their Own Push

On Capitol Hill, a group of congressional Democrats held a press conference Wednesday calling for bipartisan immigration reform before and after they take control of Congress in January, The Guardian reported. “There is time still this session for a deal,” Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona said, according to The Guardian.

The lawmakers highlighted the American Dream and Promise Act and the bipartisan Dignity Act as possible starting points, The Guardian reported. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, who expects to chair the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds the Department of Homeland Security, said he has a list of guardrails for ICE, according to The Guardian.

Trump has signaled he intends to use his veto often to block Democratic-backed legislation, The Guardian reported.

Sources

• Fox News
• Fox News on X (Mullin)
• Fox News on X (Homan, “bright red”)
• Fox News on X (Homan, “Biden effect”)
• The Associated Press (via ABC News)
• The Guardian

Reporting by Daily Beltway.