{"id":23327,"date":"2026-05-28T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-kim-responds-to-mullin-on-ice-facility-protest-this-was-never-about-me\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:22:15","slug":"andy-kim-responds-to-mullin-on-ice-facility-protest-this-was-never-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-kim-responds-to-mullin-on-ice-facility-protest-this-was-never-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Kim responds to Mullin on ICE facility protest: &#8216;This was never about me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) fired back at Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday, after the latter slammed the senator for attending a protest outside of a migrant detention facility in the Garden State. During Wednesday&rsquo;s cabinet meeting at the White House, Mullin said that Kim &ldquo;complained&rdquo; about being hit by pepper ball spray at&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5898462-andy-kim-protests-ice\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) fired back at Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday, after the latter slammed the senator for attending a protest outside of a migrant detention facility in the Garden State. During Wednesday&rsquo;s cabinet meeting at the White House, Mullin said that Kim &ldquo;complained&rdquo; about being hit by pepper ball spray at&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}