The current senator of Oklahoma was approved on Monday as the Minister of Homeland Security in the Trump administration by the U.S. Senate, with 54 votes for and 45 votes against.
He is now officially in charge of the security of the United States. The nomination of Markwayne Mullin as Minister of Homeland Security in the Trump administration was confirmed on Monday by the U.S. Senate. The current senator from Oklahoma was approved for this position at the heart of many controversies in the United States with 54 votes for and 45 votes against.
Markwayne Mullin, 48, will now take over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as it has been in a state of budget paralysis for over a month. The Democratic opposition refuses to approve DHS funding without significant reforms being made to ICE, the immigration police headed by this department.
The hearing of Markwayne Mullin before a Senate committee took place last week, shortly after the dismissal of Kristi Noem, who was weakened by the highly criticized anti-immigration operations in recent months in Minneapolis, during which two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were killed by federal agents. During his hearing, he distanced himself from his own statements regarding Alex Pretti, whom he had referred to as an “individual of rank”. “I shouldn’t have said that, and as a minister, I wouldn’t,” he admitted. “I spoke too quickly. I reacted heatedly without knowing the facts.”
The Fight Against Immigration as a Battleground Regarding ICE, criticized for the brutal methods it has adopted to carry out the anti-immigration offensive advocated by Donald Trump, the Republican senator mentioned his vision that he would like to see this agency “become the means” used to deport migrants rather than be at the “frontline” to arrest them across the country.
Markwayne Mullin, who described the American president as a “friend,” has set a goal that “within six months, (the DHS) no longer makes the headlines every day.”
Donald Trump has made the fight against illegal immigration an absolute priority, referring to an “invasion” of the United States by “foreign criminals” and extensively publicizing immigrant deportations. But his program of mass deportations has been thwarted or slowed down by multiple court decisions, including from the mostly conservative Supreme Court, on the grounds that individuals targeted should be able to assert their rights.
