Mullin: 'Zero Change' on Deportations After Voters Torch the GOP

The Voters Spoke and the Secretary Hit Mute

Mullin made his pitch on "The Ingraham Angle" on Tuesday, per Fox News, days after midterm results that handed Democrats majorities in the House and the Senate. Ingraham raised Donald Trump's suggestion that Republicans might work with Democrats on a deal. Mullin shut that down fast.

"Amnesty will never be on the table," he said.

Note what is happening here. The country just delivered a message at the ballot box, and the person running the largest enforcement operation in the federal government responded by promising that no message was received. That is not a rebuttal of the results. That is a refusal to acknowledge them.

3,600 a Day and Counting

Mullin said the agency is deporting roughly 3,600 people a day and has no plans to ease off. "We haven't slowed down at all," he said.

He also claimed DHS has "re-prioritized" toward "the worst of the worst," which he listed as murderers, rapists, child predators, drug bankers and cartel members. It is a tidy list. It also sits awkwardly next to a pace of 3,600 removals every single day, a number that raises an obvious question about how many murderers and cartel bankers exist in the country to fill that quota.

That is not an accusation of anything specific. It is just arithmetic, and the Secretary did not offer the breakdown.

Nothing Is Ever Enough, Says the Man Who Wants Everything

Mullin's case against working with Democrats was that you simply cannot trust them. "Nothing's enough for them," he said.

Here's the thing. The administration's own position, stated plainly by the man in charge of the agency, is that the answer to any Democratic request is no, the answer to any compromise is no, and the answer to the results of a national election is also no. Complaining that the other side is never satisfied while declaring that you will concede nothing is a bold rhetorical move.

He then pointed at the Democratic Socialists of America, claiming the group is "running the Democrat Party right now" and wants to "defund the country." His evidence was that some of them want to defund his agency. Which is a thing a department can be, apparently, a country.

The Veto Pen Is Doing Heavy Lifting

Mullin also leaned on the one tool the administration still controls. "The president has made it very clear he controls the veto," he said. If Democrats send over something Trump and Republicans oppose, "he will veto it."

Then he added the line that deserves a framed spot in a civics classroom: "The president will not sign anything that isn't in the right movement for this country and the Republican Party."

Read that again. The country and the Republican Party, in that order, as if the two were the same entity. Democrats just won both chambers, which means a majority of voters picked a different direction, and the Secretary's framework treats that direction as illegitimate by definition.

Trump Floated a Deal, and His Own Side Blinked

The backdrop here is a small internal mess. Fox News itself ran a linked piece on the White House doubling down after Trump angered the base by floating a deal with Democrats over undocumented immigrants. So the president muses about compromise, the base revolts, and a Cabinet secretary goes on cable to slam the door before anyone can walk through it.

Mullin's closing argument was that you cannot secure a nation or a city "if you don't know who's in your country." That is a reasonable thing to want. It is also a slogan that justifies literally any enforcement action, at any scale, forever, which is presumably why it keeps showing up.