PHOENIX — The Trump border and deportation record is paying off on Arizona’s streets. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin spent two days in Arizona this week, and the Trump administration is touting numbers showing a 13% drop in violent crime statewide over the last year.
Asked how much of that drop comes from mass deportation, Mullin did not hesitate. “Everything,” he said. “President Trump has talked about this before. Two percent of the population create over 90% of the crimes.” He had just watched a deportation flight take off from Mesa Gateway Airport: “There was murderers, there was child rapists, there was drug traffickers, there was gang bangers … criminals of all types on that flight.”
Mullin said Arizona families should judge DHS by one simple test. “Do you feel safer in your home today than you did when we first came in? That’s it,” he said. “Do you feel safer in your communities? Do you feel safer going out to eat? Do you feel safer going to the park? Do you feel safer going to a ballgame? We’re enforcing our nation’s laws.”
On Friday, the Secretary visited a U.S. Customs and Border Protection cargo facility at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Foreign goods there are inspected for illegal drugs, national-security threats and fraudulently labeled goods. CBP even flagged baseball jerseys that were claimed to be made in Mexico but were made in China. “We need to make sure we’re looking at almost every package that comes in,” Mullin said.
“Organized criminals often try to ship drugs and counterfeit goods into the United States through legitimate commerce channels, but CBP has the expertise and manpower to stop contraband from entering our country,” DHS said. Under President Trump, the laws are enforced, the criminals are going home, and American families are safer. Watch Secretary Mullin in the video above.
