DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin Joins ICE in Virginia for Operation to Arrest Criminal Alien

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in northern Virginia for a Friday morning operation that led to the arrest of a previously deported criminal illegal alien.

Mullin, who traded his role as the junior Republican senator from Oklahoma to lead DHS in March, announced that his officers “arrested a criminal illegal, removed multiple times from our country, whose rap sheet includes drug possession and driving under the influence.”

In his social media announcement of the early-morning arrest, the secretary blamed Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) for making Virginia a “magnet for criminal illegal aliens” with her “sanctuary policies.”

“Roughly 50 percent of the murderers in Fairfax, Virginia — the perps are illegals. Shouldn’t even be in the country to begin with,” Mullin said in a video shot at the scene of the arrest: 

“You have, you know, politicians that want to protect the criminals,”