The House Homeland Security Committee was in session today, and the featured witness at the hearing was none other than puppy murderer and serial adulterer Kristi Noem, head of the Department of Homeland Security, who gets off on dressing as a ICE agent and pointing a gun at her colleagues, earning her the nickname of Cosplay Barbie.
During the hearing, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) took issue with the way Noem’s department had handled the case of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, who was deported to a Salvadoran concentration camp without so much as a court hearing, which is required under the law.
“Will you give Mr. Abrego-Garcia the due process that the Supreme Court and Judge Wilkinson have required you to give him?” Goldman asked the DHS chief.
Noem replied, “Abrego-Garcia is an El Salvador resident who is in his home country. If he were to come back to this country, he would be immediately removed again.”
“How do you know?” the congressman asked.
He has received and been treated appropriately, sir, and he is not in this country anymore,” Noem responded.
“How do you know?” Goldman pressed.
“He has received and been treated appropriately, sir, and he is not in this country anymore,” Noem snapped back.
“How can you say he’s been treated appropriately if the Supreme Court has ruled 9-0, 9-0 that he hasn’t been treated appropriately?” Goldman wondered. “Why is your opinion better and has more authority than the Supreme Court?”
“We had two judges, investigators, two judges, an immigration court that all said he was MS-13 and was removed from this country,” Noem insisted, even though that’s not the least bit factual.
“But you understand, that is you saying that,” Goldman said. “That is you saying that.”
“That is them saying that,” she said.
“No, no, no, no!” Goldman told her. “That is you making that determination. The court has considered all that. The judge has considered all that, Madam Secretary, and if you would be quiet because I’m reclaiming my time, you are not following this court order.”
“But let’s focus on the court order because this opinion also says that to facilitate, which the Supreme Court is requiring, is an active verb,” he added. “It requires that steps be taken. What steps have you taken to return Mr. Abrego-Garcia to allow him to get due process?”
Noem: “Abrego-Garcia is in his home country.”
“What steps have you taken?” Goldman reiterated. I’m not advocating for him. I’m advocating for a court order, Madam Secretary.”
“The court order says that you must take steps to follow the court order,” he continued. “You are here under oath. What steps have you taken to return Mr. Abrego-Garcia pursuant to this court order?
“It’s got to be extremely discouraging to be one of your constituents,” Noem said. “To see you fight for a terrorist like this and not fight for them is extremely alarming to me.”
“I’m fighting for due process,” Goldman reminded her. “And that’s under the Constitution, and you should fight too for due process.”
How would Secretary Noem feel if a member of her family was suddenly put on a plane without due process and shipped off to another country? She’d be livid, and for good reason.
But if the law doesn’t apply to everyone, including those we find unsavory, then who’s to say that tomorrow one of us might be arrested and shipped off to another country? If it can happen to one person, then it can happen to any one of us. And that’s the very definition of a police state.
Here’s the video:
