Trump administration ‘drawing up plans’ to stop processing international flights in sanctuary cities

Markwayne Mullin, DHS secretary, said move would come in response to protests outside ICE facility in New Jersey The Trump administration has threatened to stop processing international flights in major cities around the country as a reaction to protests against immigration enforcement. Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, said during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday that the administration is “drawing up plans” to take the action, in response to days of clashes at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Jersey. They plan to withdraw immigration processing services at cities with so-called sanctuary laws, which ban or limit local police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. He questioned the provision of federal immigration services at Newark Liberty international airport while Democratic lawmakers were showing up and joining demonstrators in criticizing conditions inside the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark. “If it belonged to us, we would take care of it, but it belongs to the city. And they’re barricading our employees from coming in and out of the [ICE] facility. Then why are we processing international