Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Monday that President Trump instructed him to work with Democrats on immigration reform, a day after President Trump told "60 Minutes" that his mass deportation campaign may have gone too far - but Mullin says that won't include Amnesty.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, speaks at a forum to address the evolving challenges and opportunities in drone security, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. Credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta"We're never going to allow amnesty to happen," Mullin told reporters at a counter-drone conference in Maryland. He then left one door open: "Now, if we want to have an immigration reform to where we can look at DACA and figure out a way that these individuals can become maybe legal permanent citizens or something like this, that'll be up to Congress." Mullin was referring to recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides temporary protection from deportation and work authorization to eligible immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.
There are roughly 440,000 DACA recipients in the United States as of June 30 of this year.
Mullin said "a lot of Democrats" have called him about working together. "I've let the president know that those calls are coming in, and the president has said, 'Let's start working with them and then let's meet at some point,'" he said. He added th
