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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confronted Sen. Chris Murphy at a hearing Tuesday, telling the Democratic lawmaker he was \u201creckless\u201d and inciting violence with his anti-ICE rhetoric.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Murphy said Democrats won\u2019t fund Mr. Mullin\u2019s department and its U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations because \u201cnever before in the history of our nation has a federal agency been run so far off the rails as the Department of Homeland Security.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, this agency is breaking the law at scale and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars,\u201d the Connecticut Democrat declared from the dais. \u201cDHS does not implement the law any longer. It makes up the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Mullin clapped back: \u201cThe outlandish claims you made there is just flat wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou start saying we\u2019re breaking the law, and you really start looking at it, and we\u2019re enforcing the laws that Congress did pass \u2014 that\u2019s reckless,\u201d he said. \u201cWe swore to uphold the Constitution just like you swore to uphold the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that if Mr. Murphy does not like the laws that his department is enforcing, \u201cyou can change them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not picking and choosing which laws we enforce; we\u2019re simply enforcing the law,\u201d the secretary informed the senator.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mullin then accused Mr. Murphy of inciting violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you throw out reckless terms, and you start referring to our agents as being dangerous, unconstitutional and lawless, that\u2019s why our agents\u2019 death threats are up by 8,000%,\u201d he said. \u201cI know that\u2019s not what you want, but your political theater, that\u2019s what it causes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Murphy\u2019s cited one federal court decision regarding ICE activities in Minnesota, in which U.S. District Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz issued a reprimand to federal immigration enforcement in January.<\/p>\n

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Judge Schiltz, appointed by former President George W. Bush, identified at least 96 court orders that ICE violated in 74 cases across Minnesota in just January, noting that the figure was likely an undercount.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis list should give pause to anyone, no matter his or her political beliefs, who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. ICE is not a law unto itself,\u201d he wrote in his ruling.<\/p>\n

Judge Schiltz threatened to hold ICE\u2019s acting director, Todd Lyons, in contempt of court.<\/p>\n

Mr. Murphy said, \u201cWhether you want to believe it or not, at the root of our disagreement is that it is very hard for us to figure out how to fund an agency that is violating the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand your M.O., and others in the administration\u2019s M.O., is to attack us personally or to claim that we\u2019re inciting violence when we point out the widespread illegality, but this is a Republican-appointed judge who is saying the exact same thing that I am saying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pressed on whether he would comply with a court order that determines the department is acting illegally, Mr. Mullin said that he \u201cwould probably be able to answer that, but we see courts over and over again that use their bench for their political opinion, not just the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be really concerned about the rulings that come out of the courts, and often they get overturned,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey fall apart when you have a judge that makes a political opinion from a bench, or they\u2019re outside the law too. Not all judges are above the law, but sometimes they think they are the law. That\u2019s why we see lower courts get overturned by higher courts constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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