A “sanctuary city” is a place where local law enforcement does not hand over undocumented migrants to federal authorities for deportation.
“Why are we processing international flights into the airport there?” Mullin told Fox News.
“We’re currently drawing up plans to say, listen, these sanctuary cities where the local radical-left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our jobs and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities either.
“Because they don’t want us to enforce immigration, but they want us to process immigration at their facilities.”
Most Australians flying to the US land in either of those California cities.
The only current direct route to the US mainland from Australia is to Dallas, which would not be affected.
Which means if an Australian family wanted to go to Disneyland, they would need to fly 16 hours from Sydney to Dallas, then double back to Los Angeles on a three-hour flight.
Alternatively, they would have to do a stopover in Hawaii.
Direct routes to New York and Boston from Auckland would also be blocked under this policy.
“Cutting off New York, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and other major ports of entry/departure from international flights would be the biggest self-inflicted wound to our economy since closing the Strait of Hormuz,” US economist Patrick Chovanec said.
“The costs would be ridiculous.
“It’s really such an impressively stupid idea, I’m kind of in awe.”
Other sanctuary cities include Seattle, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans and Philadelphia.
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