Hey Oregon, hey Coos County and all other sanctuary States, Cities, and Counties, it is not hard to do, participate in the 287(g) program, work with federal law enforcement while the police do their regular duties and we can get these illegal alien criminals out of our country cleanly and safely.

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Since taping this long-form interview on Tuesday with Breitbart News at DHS HQ, Mullin has been very active. He got into heated altercations with Democrats like Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT) during a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill and fought with CNN’s Jake Tapper on live television. But again, during this interview, he made clear the work is the focus and one of the biggest things he is trying to do at DHS is expand more local and state law enforcement departments into joining the 287(g) program with the federal government.

“The 287(g) program says that, ‘hey, if you’ll help us just simply hold the individual when you pull them, I don’t need you to do immigration enforcement, but because you’re out there and you’re in the streets, you’re in the community, you’re going to run into them anyway,’” Mullin said, noting that state and local police departments as well as sheriff’s departments nationwide regularly encounter illegal aliens. “If you can join on the 287(g) program, then you can make that arrest right there on that on the spot.”

Mullin said cops nationwide regularly encounter illegal aliens in the course of law enforcement activities, and by working with federal authorities they can ease immigration enforcement significantly.

“Say they pull over a traffic stop or public disturbance or a public intoxication, or they bust a house because they’re serving a warrant and there’s some illegals there, there’s illegal activity at businesses, just anything in day-to-day operations,” Mullin said. “There isn’t anybody that touches the public more than the sheriff’s department and local PDs and state police, right? The state police, and so when they’re part of the 287(g) program, they can partner with us, and guess what? When they partner with us, we reimburse. We’ll reimburse you for equipment. We reimburse the time of the officer. If you actually want to help and partner with us to serve warrants, we’ll actually pay for those officers’ full salary for you to go through. In small municipalities, smaller states, they can add officers because they can buy new equipment, they can buy drones, they can buy vehicles, and we help them, because we’ve got a huge influx of illegals that’s in this country, and some of them — yes some of them want to work — but 70 percent of the individuals we arrest on a daily basis with immigration enforcement have either pending felony charges or they’ve already had felony charges and a huge percent of those have been released already from sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. We’re like, ‘why are we having to use taxpayer dollars twice to catch this bad guy?’ If you would just simply partner with us with the 287(g) program, which we’ll pay you for, we’ll come pick them up and then they’re not back on the streets, they’re not threatening anybody on the streets. One death from an illegal is 100 percent preventable. One death, and just in Tennessee alone, we’ve had over 41 deaths in the last 12 months from an illegal, from people that were here in this country illegally. Fifty percent of all the deaths that have happened in Fairfax County, [Virginia,] just down the road from here — 50 percent committed by illegals. We should all be working together to get these individuals out of our streets. If you’re not in this country legally, there’s a legal process for that to take place. You can fill out the paperwork and do it legally, but we have laws in this nation and we must enforce those, and if you’re willing to break one, you’re willing to break others.”

Mullin mentioned earlier in the interview that his work with some sanctuary cities and states during the World Cup security process has possibly opened some doors in terms of potentially working together on 287(g) immigration enforcement down the road with them. Asked if there are more states and localities joining the program, Mullin told Breitbart News there are countless examples of local law enforcement even in blue states like California or New Jersey wanting to team up with DHS to help in the 287(g) program to remove criminal illegal aliens from their communities.

“I’ll just use these couple examples here — Florida, and Oklahoma do the best job at enforcing the 287(g) program and partnering with us,” Mullin said. “In fact, the state that makes the most arrests under the 287(g) program, and that we put the most money toward, is Florida. The second state is Oklahoma. Now, there’s a huge difference in the population base there but because we have such a large percentage of participation in Oklahoma with the 287(g) program, from counties to cities, small municipalities to large cities to our state, we’re able to work great or closer as a partnership and we’re able to get the criminals off our streets. When you have states like California or New Jersey or Virginia that become a sanctuary state, what we find is almost every police chief and almost every sheriff wants to participate with us but because we have these lunatic left-leaning sanctuary city politicians that are more interested in protecting the criminals than they are law-abiding citizens, their hands are tied and it makes it very difficult. So, say there’s an illegal that has served their time in the state penitentiary and they’re being released. They should be deported immediately. The sanctuary states won’t even participate with us. They won’t even let us know that this individual is being released on the street, and they’ll literally turn this person right out back into the streets — or say they’re in a county jail and some liberal prosecuting attorney decided to drop the charges or say some liberal judge that decided to release the individual with no money bail, just release them on their own recognizance, even though they have a litany of felony charges, or of charges that’s been charged on them, they still release them on the streets. Well, what could be happening is they can say, ‘Hey, listen, we’re not going to charge them, but they’re here illegally. You have information on this individual that you want to pick up. So, can you come pick them up?’ We’d simply pick them up, and then take it off the state’s hands and put them back in our hands. But unfortunately, these sanctuary cities, they’re not participating with us.”