U.S. Senator Andy Kim this morning in his cross examination of Trump Homeland Security Secretary nominee Markwayne Mullin secured a commitment from Mullin to come to Roxbury to examine where the agency he hopes to lead wants to site an ICE detainment facility.

That's if Mullin gets confirmed, which seems likely given GOP control, although not everyone in his own party sees him as a good fit for the office he seeks. The nominee, a sitting Republican Senator from Oklahoma, struggled to explain public violent tendencies and threatening behavior when queried by U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

President Donald Trump wants replace canned DHS chief Kristi Noem with Mullin following ICE agent's killing of two 1st Amendment-exercising Americans in Minneapolis earlier this year.

Mullin in his testimony also seemed confused about the basic demands of the job, against the backdrop of ICE's controversial purchase of a 470,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Roxbury, which would house up to 1,500 detainees on a piece of property the size of eight football fields.

ICE made the purchase with zero local input, enraging residents in a Republican town.

"Is that fair for DHS, imposing a largescale project without local [input]?" Kim wanted to know.

"Being from a small rural [town] in Oklahoma, the community should be visited with," said Mullin, especially as it impacts infrastructure.

"One thing I do know is construction," said the contractor by trade, who referred to Roxbury as a town of 60,000.

[Just over] Twenty-thousand, Kim corrected. The fully functioning facility would take up ten percent of the town's population.

"Most municipalities don't have the capacity for waste and water, it's important that we're talking to these communities," Mullin said.

"This town has 42 police officers and volunteer fire, does that sound like the kind of town [that has appropriate supporting] resources [for an ICE detention facility]?"

"I don't know the circumstances," said Mullin. "We'll talk. I'll make a trip out there, get on the phone with the mayor."

If confirmed, Mullin said he promised to give Kim a specific reason why ICE wants the facility in Roxbury.

"I hope you will reassess this warehouse," the senator said pointedly.