Washington, DC —Following Donald Trump’s nomination of Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to lead the Department of Homeland Security, a new America’s Voice Substack analysis, “Agents of Mass Deportation: Who is DHS Secretary Nominee Markwayne Mullin?”, examines Mullin’s record supporting the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda and his defense of chaotic and aggressive anti-immigration enforcement operations.
According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice:
“The words may be changing, but the violence and chaos is not. DHS is unaccountable and a mess. Alarmingly, Senator Mullin’s record and endorsement of this administration’s anti-immigrant agenda raises deep concerns as our backgrounder reveals. Yet the problem goes deeper: anyone enabling the Trump/Miller agenda or refusing to enact real change and accountability is on the wrong side of the American people. The GOP’s problem is mass deportation, not its messaging or who is running DHS.”
Below, read key excerpts from the Substack: “Agents of Mass Deportation: Who is DHS Secretary Nominee Markwayne Mullin?”
“Donald Trump has nominated Republican Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin to replace Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was ousted last week following a disastrous series of Congressional hearings that continued to shed light on her chaotic and deadly immigration enforcement operations, as well as her own shady dealings in office. While Congressional Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) have tried to frame Mullin’s selection as a ‘course-correction’ following Noem’s disastrous tenure, and at least one Senate Democrat has praised him as ‘competent’ and ‘honest,’ the facts tell a different story.”
“While Mullin may have publicly shared some pro-immigrant sentiments in the past, he has been an enthusiastic supporter of Trump and anti-immigrant architect-in-chief Stephen Miller’s mass deportation agenda, including support for violent immigration enforcement operations that have claimed American lives, the cruel targeting of immigrant pre-schoolers, and asserting U.S.-born children should be deported with their immigrant parents. Mullin has also been unapologetic in embracing the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 presidential election.”
“Like Noem, all indications suggest that Mullin will be the nominal leader of DHS on paper, but on the ground, Miller will continue to run the anti-immigrant show.”
“Mullin has attempted to excuse and defend the brutal federal immigration enforcement actions that directly resulted in the shooting killings of U.S. citizens Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, including echoing the administration’s personal attacks as part of an effort to stifle public sympathy for their deaths.”
“Mullin has been described as a ‘staunch defender’ of the administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda, going so far as to argue that American-born children should be deported alongside their undocumented parents.”
“Mullin has defended the administration’s violent military invasion of American communities, stating that out-of-control federal immigration agents have ‘the right’ to flood neighborhoods and claiming that Americans who have been exercising their right to protest and observe these operations are being paid.”
“Mullin was a proponent of the Big Lie falsely claiming that Trump actually won the 2020 presidential election.”
