US Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullins, said customs officials at specific international airports might stop processing international travellers.
Mullins said Homeland Security was considering pulling its customs officers from certain ‘sanctuary city’ airports in the US that have declined to cooperate with the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown, according to Reuters.
Affected airports include international airports in New York City, Newark, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and more, according to the US Department of Justice’s list of ‘sanctuary cities and states’ published in October 2025.
"It's an option," Mullin told reporters in North Carolina, adding that no final decision had been made.
"If cities are going to sit there and say that they're not going to enforce immigration policies, then I'll repeat myself and say it doesn't make any sense for us to process international travellers through that city."
