U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin Saturday touted his visit to Los Angeles to meet with families who have lost loved ones to violence perpetrated by undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n
\u201cTHIS IS OUR WHY: Yesterday, @SecMullinDHS visited with Angel families in California,\u201d the DHS posted Saturday on X. \u201cTheir stories are a solemn reminder of why we continue to remove the worst of the worst from our nation. Angel families will ALWAYS have the support of @POTUS Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mullin and his wife Christie met with several California families on Friday at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Among those speaking at the meeting was 73-year-old Don Rosenberg of Westlake Village, who decried the 2010 death of his 25-year-old son Drew Rosenberg, who he said was struck by a vehicle driven by a Honduran national living in the country illegally and without a driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad he been arrested and deported, my son would be alive,\u201d Rosenberg told the California Post. \u201cI don\u2019t care if they haven\u2019t committed a crime \u2014 if they\u2019re here illegally, deport them all.\u201d<\/p>\n
The secretary also criticized local and state Democrats for allegedly opposing efforts to flag criminals for deportation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey aren\u2019t allowing detainers to be served on criminals,\u201d Mullin told the Post. \u201cThese are individuals that have been convicted of a crime, and they\u2019re being released from state prisons or state jails. It\u2019s shameful. I actually think it\u2019s criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201d \u2026 What separates us from a third-world country is we\u2019re a nation of laws,\u201d he added. \u201cYou have these radical left extreme Democrats that are trying to destroy the system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Representatives for Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s office did not immediately reply to a request for comment Saturday.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has frequently criticized the presence of ICE in Los Angeles since the Trump administration began its crackdown in June 2025, pushed back against Mullin\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy heart is with the families who have lost loved ones to violence. They deserve justice, and people who commit crimes must be held accountable,\u201d Bass told City News Service in a statement Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese tragedies cannot be blamed on entire communities or hardworking families. As ICE continues to terrorize Los Angeles, my focus will remain on keeping Angelenos safe and supporting all of our communities,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin Saturday touted his visit to Los Angeles to meet with families who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":632582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,96417,13959,17536,409,2961,224,5337,352862,352863,108746],"class_list":["post-865694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-crackdown","tag-families","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-meets","tag-mullin","tag-touts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116745862066797894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}