MARKWAYNE MULLIN EXPOSES DEMOCRATIC GAMES — GOP PUSHES SAVE ACT, NOT ‘Open-Border Amnesty’

In a power-packed appearance on Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) laid bare the truth about Washington’s back-room immigration maneuvering — and warned America that Democrats are playing political brinkmanship with border security.

Mullin, a fierce defender of the border and chairman of the Senate’s bipartisan No Labels group, described how some Democrats are quietly willing to talk about border fixes — but only behind closed doors, and never where voters can see. In blunt terms, Mullin said the GOP is prepared to negotiate real immigration reform tied to DHS funding that includes the SAVE Act — a cornerstone conservative safeguard, not the open-borders giveaway the left pretends to push.

“The truth is,” Mullin told Kilmeade, “plenty of Democrats that represent states with voter ID already are willing to talk — just not publicly. What they want is immigration reform, true immigration reform. And maybe there’s a longer conversation. But you can’t do it in the two-week CR window the Democrats demanded.”

At the center of the standoff is continued funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Congressional Democrats refuse to agree to even temporary funding unless their sweeping list of demands are met, including forced changes to how ICE and other border agencies operate.

Those demands — which include mandatory body cameras, stripping agents of masks, and imposing judicial warrants before certain actions — go far beyond what many conservatives believe protects Americans first.

Mullin called the Democratic approach unreasonable and a political gun to the GOP’s head, saying the two-week deadline the left set for a continuing resolution was manufactured pressure, not serious negotiation.

Instead of capitulating to last-minute hostage politics, Mullin and his allies argue for extending the DHS funding window by six weeks — a strategic move to give Republicans and willing Democrats time to broker a deal that includes the SAVE Act as part of true immigration reform.

Mullin didn’t mince words:

“If they want a real conversation,” he said, “we all need to come back to the table — with President Trump — and have a real negotiation about this. Because the SAVE Act is very, very, very important.”

This isn’t just another budget fight. It’s a defining moment in the ongoing battle over who gets to set America’s immigration policy.

For conservatives, the SAVE Act — with its emphasis on security, enforcement, and legal order — represents the only roadmap to restoring rule of law at the border. Democrats’ demands, meanwhile, market themselves as “accountability,” but many GOP lawmakers believe they would hobble border agencies and empower a bureaucracy already overwhelmed by record illegal crossings.

By insisting on a longer negotiation timeline and including the SAVE Act, GOP leaders like Mullin are signaling they won’t be shoved into rushed compromises that undermine national security.

As the nation watches, the stakes are nothing less than the future of immigration policy — and who gets to decide it: The people’s elected defenders of law and order, or politicians playing power games at America’s expense.