The Daily Blast: Trump ICE Standoff in N.J. Takes Darker Turn with Unnerving DHS Threat

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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For days, activists have been protesting terrible conditions at an ICE facility in New Jersey. In response, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is now threatening to pull Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in sanctuary cities, which could halt international flights to them. As even Fox News is pointing out, this would cause massive disruptions. Indeed, it would likely deal another big blow to GOP midterm chances. Yet the whole saga captures how Trump governance seeks to deliberately stoke searing tensions between MAGA and blue America. We talked to Nayna Gupta, policy director for the American Immigration Council, which just released a blueprint for a saner system. We discuss the worsening situation in Newark, why Mullin’s threat is simultaneously deranged and comical, and how the fascist advisers around Trump see violent conflict between MAGA and blue America as a good and desirable outcome. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.2	Mark Wayne Mullen, the new Homeland Security Secretary, leveled a really strange threat at
1:31.6	Blue States this week. He suggested that DHS might block international flights going into so-called
1:37.8	sanctuary cities, which have protections for immigrants that Donald Trump hates. This is a really
1:43.6	dark turn in a longer saga involving
1:45.9	a battle over an ice facility in New Jersey, which we're going to get into. But first, just note
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