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Mullin Attends the Grand Opening of the Oklahoma City USCIS Facility, Sep. 28, 2026

September 28, 2026 · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · 0:16:16

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What happened

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin attended the grand opening ceremony for a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) facility in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the Department of Homeland Security’s upload of the September 28, 2026 event — a home-state stop for the former Oklahoma senator. The department’s description said the event would highlight USCIS’s continued crackdown on fraud by tightening processes with DHS personnel across the country, as the department framed it.

The ceremony was hosted by the Oklahoma City field office director, Bruce Polland, as he was introduced on the recording, and USCIS Director Joseph Edlow addressed the gathering, acknowledging Senator Lankford’s staff and the Oklahoma congressional delegation and introducing Mullin as the secretary whose leadership, as Edlow stated it, guides the department’s efforts to safeguard the American people and secure the homeland. Mullin closed the ceremony by thanking the USCIS workforce, telling them, as he put it on his challenge coin’s motto, to “love the people, love the call,” and saying he meant it sincerely.

Why it matters

The Oklahoma City opening pairs the department’s legal-immigration storefront with its fraud message: a new USCIS facility opened in the Secretary’s home state, presented by the department as part of tightening the processes around immigration benefits — the administrative half of the enforcement record Mullin headlines elsewhere.

Sources: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to Attend Grand Opening Ceremony of Oklahoma City USCIS Facility” (official upload, Sep. 29, 2026, embedded above; event of Sep. 28, 2026 per the department’s description; remarks as delivered by Director Edlow and Secretary Mullin).