Lawmakers from both parties criticized Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s handling of immigration enforcement in a fiery Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
In a hearing that lasted more than four hours, they pressed her on everything from ad contracts to the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents in Minnesota. The embattled secretary, who has faced calls for her resignation, is currently overseeing a department that is in its third week of being shut down.
“You only talk about situations like this that we are conducting, and you don’t talk about the good work that we do to protect people from being victimized by people that are in this country that want to conduct violent crimes against them,” Noem said in response to questioning from Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar about a U.S. citizen who was detained by ICE, despite having proof of citizenship. “The laws need to apply to everyone.”