Confederate Jesus tells Markwayne Mullin to block international flights to blue cities

This message was received at the end of an all-night meth-fueled prayer vigil.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said late Tuesday he is “drawing up plans” to end the processing of international flights in left-leaning cities, pointing to protests outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey as rationale.

Mullin’s comments follow weekend protests at Delaney Hall in Newark, where Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) was pepper sprayed during an interaction with immigration agents.

Uh.

Critics said ending the processing of international flights at various airports would cause chaos at airports across the country, forcing airlines to cancel flights and disrupt travel for left- and right-leaning cities that depend on CBP processing at major hubs.

Juliette Kayyem, a former Obama-era Department of Homeland Security official, said if Mullin moves ahead the plan will have no impact on immigration.

“Of all the bad ideas floated by this Administration, this one ranks,” she wrote on the social platform X.

“It has got to be real; Mullin wouldn’t waste time like this unless it is a serious distraction plan. Planes don’t divert to other airports. The flights will be cancelled, disrupting blue and red voters, impacting the airlines, and having no impact on immigration policy.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, called the idea “actively insane.”

“Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another,” he wrote on X. 

“They’d just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.”

Those pesky “critics,” always with the references to “cause and effect,” and “facts,” and other markers of woke trans ideology. Which cities will be targeted? Check it out (to be clear this is just last summer’s DOJ list of “sanctuary cities,” but it’s probably a good starting point):

Albuquerque, NM

Berkeley, CA

Boston, MA

Chicago, IL

Denver, CO

East Lansing, MI

Hoboken, NJ

Jersey City, NJ

Los Angeles, CA

New Orleans, LA

New York City,

NYNewark, NJ

Paterson, NJ

Philadelphia, PA

Portland, OR

Rochester, NY

Seattle, WA

San Francisco City, CA

Luckily there are no significant international events taking place in the US next month.

I know I’m in a heightening the contradictions mood today, which is almost always a bad idea, but there’s a part of me that wants to see them go forward with this. My baseline take is that the electorate is 50% people who hate Trump, often with white hot passion that’s currently increasing in its prevalence, 35% members or fellow travelers of his cult, and 15% moron swing voters who don’t know how many senators each state gets or most of the other stuff that was covered in Schoolhouse Rock.

It’s that 15% that can have their adamantine skulls penetrated by things like this.