Kristi Noem, Secretary of the US Homeland Security, delivers on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC (Photo by Manuel Balce Centa-Pool/Getty Images) to end the employees of the headquarters of the Ministry of Homeland Security on January 28, 2025.
Washington -the US Ministry of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem on Wednesday, criticized three Democrats, who were addressed by federal immigration officials when he protested against the opening of an immigrant center in New Jersey.
Democrats at the hearing of the Committee of the House of the Homeland Protection Authority again said that officials from the immigration and customs officials had physically attacked.
Noem, who apparently was discussed for the agency about President Donald Trump’s financial year 2026, said the Democrats who went to the Delaney Hall surveillance The conditions were not properly directed.
Congress members are allowed to carry out supervisory visits in a DHS facility that immigrants defines in an appropriation law without prior notice in accordance with provisions.
“I believe that it broke into a federal institution and attacked law enforcement officers,” said Noem, the former governor of South Dakota.
Newark incident
Last Friday, the three democratic members of New Jersey – Reps protested. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Lamonica Mciver and Rob Menendez – in Newark against the reopening of a detention center for immigrants.
The mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested. It was a mighty escalation of the resistance of the democratic legislators against the procedure of the Trump government.
After the incident, Menendez explained how ice agents “two female members of the congress have physically attacked”.
Several Republicans of the committee that the homeland protection authority monitor, including the chairman Mark Green from Tennessee, said that it should have consequences for the democrats such as criminal charges.
Green accused one of three Democrats of attacking a law enforcement officer.
“This behavior requires a quick and firm reaction, and I assure you that measures are taken,” said Green.
The Arizona GOP MP Eli Crane suggested that against the democratic members and the Republican MP Andy Ogles from Tennessee that had not suggested that anyone had “taken action) if a member was attacked when a member was attacked”.
The top democrat on the panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson from Mississippi, did not pop anyone for the incident.
“Instead of following the law, the masked ice staff stopped and attacked the members,” he said. “In order to make things worse, her department has lied to the press through the situation instead of starting an investigation of the incident and threatened to arrest members of the congress because of their work.”
One of the Democrats, which protested in the internment camp, is McIver, sits in the committee, but did not talk to anyone about the incident.
“This is not about me,” said Mciver and instead did not urge anyone about international students who had their visas revoked.
Concentrate on Abrego Garcia
The Democrats criticized Noem and the aggressive immigration by the Trump government, which have led to brisk deportations and concerns about a lack of proper procedure.
They concentrated in particular on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man from Maryland who was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador.
The Democratic MP of Rhode Island, Seth Magaziner, called Noem’s leadership of DHS “sloppy” and said he had led to immigrants and even US citizens’ children.
“Instead of enforcing the laws, they repeatedly broken them,” said magazine. “You have to change the course immediately before innocent people are violated on your watch.”
The California Democratic MP Eric Swalwell asked Noem whether Abego Garcia had received an appropriate proper procedure.
Swalwell said that he defended a proper procedure and stopped a poster on which Trump held a picture of Abrego Garcia’s hand, which added his ankle digital “MS -13” tattoos.
He asked her several times whether the photo was liked. Noem did not answer the question, but said that she was not aware of the picture.
Instead, she said, even if Abrego Garcia returned to the USA, he would be deported immediately. The US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump government had to make the return of Abrego Garcia easier, but it remains in El Salvador.
Crane asked Noem if she supported the suspended Habas Corpus, which supported the officials like the deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff of Weißen Haus.
Habeas Corpus allows people who believe that they are illegally imprisoned to apply for their release in court, and it is used to question the detention of immigration. It is currently the only way to subject the Venezuelans to the Alien enemy law of 1798 in order to question their deportation under the War Act.
“This is not in my area of ​​responsibility,” said Noem. “This is the President’s privilege, and he did not show me that he will take this measure or not.”
The US constitution enables Habeas Corpus “require public security in cases of rebellion or invasion”.
Crane argued that an unauthorized immigration was counted as an “invasion” and could therefore be used to expose Habas Corpus.
Habeas Corpus was suspended four times in US history during the civil war; In almost a dozen counties in South Carolina, which were overrun by the Ku Klux Klan during the reconstruction; In an uprising of 1905 in US territories in the Philippines; And after the bombing for Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Fema emanted
Thompson has not grilled any of the president Comments that want to reduce the Fema.
Noem said that she supports Trump’s politics.
“The president was clear that he would like to enable the states to give them the opportunity to build their answer,” she said.
She said that the federal government, while the federal government will be there, will be there, the local and state governments “know what they need”.
Thompson asked Noem if she answered a plan for the federal government on natural disasters.
Noem said, while there is nothing in writing: “The White House has a plan in front of it … that will make recommendations.”
The GOP MP Carlos Gimenez from Florida said that although he supported the efforts to reform the Fema “, no one emphasized that” we do not let those who cannot act for themselves.
