2026-05-25T11:00:08.443Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/markwayne-mullin-dhs-deportations-immigration
- 国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马尔文正试图落实特朗普的驱逐任务，同时规避其前任的失误。
- 马尔文威胁要削减庇护城市的机场人员编制，这引发了政府内部的一些反对声音。
- 马尔文缩减了备受争议的流动巡逻队，但政府仍威胁要向不配合联邦移民行动的辖区派遣更多移民官员。
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上任仅两个月，国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马尔文正面临一道难题：如何在兑现唐纳德·特朗普总统赋予他的驱逐任务的同时，避开导致其前任被解职的同款失误。
针对蓝州和蓝市的备受争议的移民流动巡逻已经缩减。但马尔文仍在严厉抨击这些地区的民选官员及其进步派移民政策，而白宫边境事务专员近期还誓言要“向这些地区倾派驻扎”更多移民执法人员。
在国土安全部停摆期间，马尔文调派移民海关执法局的官员前往人手短缺的机场支援，同时威胁要削减部分拒绝配合联邦移民执法的辖区内机场的拨款。
他大力宣传本部门参与保障多场即将到来的世界杯赛事的安全，但同时也未排除部分负责赛事安保的官员可能会逮捕移民的可能性，这加剧了球迷的担忧——他们表示将放弃观赛或抵制赛事。
上任初期，他暂停了建造大型移民拘留仓库的计划，但据报道，随着相关诉讼悬而未决，部分此类计划如今再次推进。
总体而言，马尔文担任内阁部长头60天的行动表明，他正试图在两条路线之间找到平衡：一是他在3月确认听证会上向议员承诺的、温和且不引发争议的移民执法方式，二是MAGA强硬派以及总统本人希望兑现特朗普重返白宫的核心议题之一的诉求。
国土安全部发言人在一份声明中表示，在马尔文的领导下，该机构“正全力聚焦于让美国再次安全的使命”。
“国土安全部仍在逮捕最恶劣的罪犯，打造美国历史上最安全的边境，并阻止毒品涌入我们的社区，”该发言人说道。
与此同时，政府官员已采取措施强调他们继续推进大规模驱逐的愿景，尤其是在那些批评政府未兑现相关承诺的保守派受众面前。
“我们不会放弃，”白宫边境事务专员汤姆·霍曼在本月早些时候的一场会议上对一群国土安全部官员和行业人士说道，“特朗普总统当选的原因有很多——但主要原因是什么？移民执法。”
马尔文试图重塑麾下移民官员的形象。在上任部长克里斯蒂·诺姆执政期间，这些官员因在芝加哥、洛杉矶和明尼阿波利斯等城市推行激进的移民执法政策，遭遇了近乎每日不断的负面新闻冲击。（特朗普本人甚至提议将移民海关执法局的名称改为“NICE”——在前面加上“国家”一词，但遭到了霍曼和普通官员的反对。）
在持续76天、占据马尔文上任头一个月的国土安全部停摆期间，移民海关执法局的官员被部署到多个机场，通过维持 crowd control（人群管控）来缓解人手短缺问题。
但马尔文也提出了一项可能会加剧不配合联邦移民执法的辖区内机场人手短缺的提案。
《大西洋月刊》上周报道称，马尔文近期告诉一群航空和旅游行业高管，他正考虑削减所谓庇护辖区机场的海关与边境保护局官员编制，包括波特兰、纽约市和北弗吉尼亚的机场。马尔文在上任初期就曾公开预告过这些计划。
“如果他们是庇护城市，却接收国际航班，我们要求他们在机场与我们合作，但他们走出机场后却不执行移民政策，那我们或许需要认真审视这一情况，因为我们需要将精力集中在愿意与我们合作的城市上，”他在4月初接受福克斯新闻采访时说道。
国土安全部发言人未就马尔文削减编制的提案提供更多细节，包括实施时间。鉴于部分“庇护”辖区同时将举办世界杯赛事，可能吸引数万国际游客，夏季的任何编制削减都可能迅速引发混乱。
这一提议遭到了政府内部的反对，其中包括交通部长肖恩·达菲。“我们不应该因为某个州不同意我们的政治立场就切断其航空旅行，”达菲在周四的国会听证会上说道。
马尔文在社交媒体上大力宣传本部门为世界杯赛事做的准备工作。这为他提供了一个展示国土安全调查局工作的机会——该机构是移民海关执法局的分支，负责人口贩卖和假冒商品等案件，此前常常被该局的移民执法部门掩盖光芒。
但马尔文在接受哥伦比亚广播公司采访时表示，移民官员也会在赛事现场执勤。他表示，他们不会专注于“大规模”逮捕无证移民，但同时也未排除移民海关执法局会实施逮捕的可能性。
“我们不会在那里大规模围捕个人，但我们始终在寻找最恶劣的罪犯，”他说，“我们会继续这么做。”
CNN记者亚历山德拉·斯科尔斯对本文亦有贡献。
Mullin’s first two months at DHS: deportations, threats against sanctuary cities — and a lower profile
2026-05-25T11:00:08.443Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/markwayne-mullin-dhs-deportations-immigration
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is trying to fulfill Trump’s deportation mandate while avoiding his predecessor’s pitfalls.
- Mullin has threatened to cut airport staffing in sanctuary cities, prompting some pushback within the administration.
- Mullin scaled back controversial roving patrols but the administration is still threatening to send more immigration officers to jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with the federal effort.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
Two months into his new role, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin finds himself trying to solve a puzzle: How does he deliver on the deportation mandate expected of him by President Donald Trump, while avoiding some of the same pitfalls that led to the ouster of his predecessor?
The controversial roving immigration patrols targeting blue states and cities have scaled back. But Mullin still lambasts the elected officials leading these areas and their progressive immigration policies, while the White House’s border czar recently vowed “to flood the zone” in such places with immigration agents.
Mullin lent Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports suffering staffing shortages during the Department od Homeland Security shutdown, while also threatening to cut funding for some of those same airports in jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
He is hyping his agency’s involvement in securing dozens of upcoming World Cup matches, but has left open the possibility that some of the officers assigned to secure those matches may arrest immigrants — exacerbating a concern of fans who say they will skip or boycott the events.
He paused efforts to install sprawling migrant detention warehouses early in his tenure, but some of those plans are now reportedly moving forward again in the face of pending litigation.
All told, Mullin’s actions over his first 60 days as a Cabinet secretary show he is trying to straddle the line between the conciliatory and drama-free approach to immigration enforcement he promised lawmakers during his March confirmation hearing and the desire from MAGA hardliners, and the president himself, to deliver on one of the signature issues that propelled Trump back to the White House.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement that, under Mullin’s leadership, the agency is “laser focused on its mission of making America safe again.”
“DHS continues to arrest the worst of the worst, deliver the most secure border in American history, and stop drugs from pouring into our communities,” the spokesperson said.
Administration officials, meanwhile, have taken steps to emphasize their continued vision for mass deportations, especially in front of conservative audiences who have criticized the administration for not delivering on those promises.
“We’re not giving up,” White House border czar Tom Homan told a group of DHS officials and industry personnel during a conference earlier this month. “President Trump was put into office for one big reason — lot of reasons — but the main reason? Immigration enforcement.”
Mullin has sought to rehabilitate the image of immigration officers under his command who, under the previous secretary, Kristi Noem, faced an onslaught of near-daily negative news about their aggressive immigration pushes in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. (Trump, for his part, even floated changing ICE’s name to “NICE” — adding National to the start — but faced pushback from Homan and rank-and-file officers.)
During the DHS shutdown that stretched for 76 days and consumed the first month of Mullin’s tenure, ICE officers were deployed to several airports to help alleviate staffing shortages by working crowd control.
But Mullin has also weighed an idea that would cause staffing shortages at airports in jurisdictions that do not cooperate with the federal government in enforcing immigration laws.
The Atlantic reported last week that Mullin recently told a group of airline and travel executives that he was considering reducing staffing of Customs and Border Protection officers working at airports in so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, including in Portland, New York City and Northern Virginia. Mullin previewed those plans publicly early in his tenure.
“If they’re a sanctuary city, and they’re receiving international flights, and we’re asking them to partner with us at the airport, but once they walk out of the airport they’re not going to enforce immigration policy, maybe we need to have a really hard look at that because we need a focus on cities that want to work with us,” he told Fox News in early April.
A DHS spokesperson did not provide more information about Mullin’s idea to cut staffing, including when it might be implemented. Given that some “sanctuary” jurisdictions are also hosting World Cup matches that could draw tens of thousands of international visitors, any staffing cuts over the summer could quickly become messy.
That idea has faced pushback from within the administration, including from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. “We shouldn’t shut down air travel in a state that doesn’t agree with our politics,” Duffy said during a Thursday congressional hearing.
Mullin has heavily promoted his agency’s preparations for the World Cup on social media. It gives the secretary the opportunity to highlight the work of Homeland Security Investigations, the branch of ICE that works cases including human trafficking and counterfeit goods and which has frequently become overshadowed by the agency’s immigration-enforcement arm.
But immigration officers will also have a presence at matches, Mullin told CBS in an interview. While they won’t be focus on “mass” round ups of undocumented immigrants, he left open the possibility that ICE will make arrests.
“We’re not there to go round up mass individuals, but we are always looking for the worst of the worst,” he said. “We’re going to continue to do that.”
CNN’s Alexandra Skores contributed to this report.