Secretary Markwayne Mullin is right to challenge the hypocrisy of sanctuary cities. If a city refuses to cooperate with federal law at its gates, it forfeits the privilege of being a gateway to the world. A nation is not a collection of independent fiefdoms; it is a single household under one law. By threatening to pull customs officers from airports like JFK and LAX, the Department of Homeland Security is reasserting the national covenant. We cannot have a border that ends at the terminal doors.

Order is the prerequisite for liberty, and those who invite chaos into our streets must not be allowed to manage our frontiers. The current standoff is about more than logistics; it is about whether the law applies to everyone or only to those whom local politicians favour. Our airports are the front doors of our home. It is only common sense that the people guarding those doors should be in full cooperation with the laws of the land. When cities choose to shield those who have bypassed our system, they undermine the security of every law-abiding family.

We must support the efforts to restore a unified perimeter. The American family deserves to know that the law is being upheld from the moment a traveller touches down on our soil. To do otherwise is to surrender our sovereignty to the whims of local activists. The Secretary’s stance is a necessary step in binding up the wounds of a fractured immigration system and returning us to a state of ordered peace.