DHS leaders face tense oversight hearing in Congress: ‘The start of a reckoning’
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
House lawmakers on Tuesday will get their first opportunity since President Donald Trump took office to question Department of Homeland Security agency leaders about the White House’s illegal immigrant deportation operation.
The leaders of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee for its first oversight hearing for the trio of immigration agencies — and the hourslong showdown on Capitol Hill is expected to be a fiery one.
Lawmakers are trying to renegotiate the terms of a $64 billion DHS funding bill before it runs out Friday, while ICE and CBP face widespread criticism from Democrats over the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota last month.
The committee’s ranking member, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), told the Washington Examiner on Monday that he envisioned the hearing as the “start of a reckoning.”
“This hearing is going to be just the start of a reckoning for the Trump administration and its weaponization of government against our country,” Thompson wrote in a statement. “Donald Trump and Kristi Noem must be held accountable for the immigration operations creating chaos in our communities, terrorizing people, and hurting U.S. citizens and immigrants alike.”
House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) called for the oversight hearing roughly a week after ICE killed a woman in Minneapolis.
Federal immigration authorities sent to Minneapolis in early December and more than 3,000 were sent in by January following the revelation of a billion-dollar fraud scheme carried out by U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants from Somalia. In that time, the DHS and partner agencies at the Justice Department have arrested more than 4,000 illegal immigrants, but the effort has been met with the harshest blowback to date of half a dozen “sanctuary” cities that the Trump administration has tried to make examples of.
Democrats are likely to focus their questions of acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott on Tuesday on the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti; the instructions that federal agents and officers in Minneapolis were given while making arrests; and what led to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s mischaracterization of the Pretti shooting.
House Democrats have called for a hearing with Noem and senior DHS officials as the Trump administration has attempted to carry out mass …
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
House lawmakers on Tuesday will get their first opportunity since President Donald Trump took office to question Department of Homeland Security agency leaders about the White House’s illegal immigrant deportation operation.
The leaders of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee for its first oversight hearing for the trio of immigration agencies — and the hourslong showdown on Capitol Hill is expected to be a fiery one.
Lawmakers are trying to renegotiate the terms of a $64 billion DHS funding bill before it runs out Friday, while ICE and CBP face widespread criticism from Democrats over the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota last month.
The committee’s ranking member, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), told the Washington Examiner on Monday that he envisioned the hearing as the “start of a reckoning.”
“This hearing is going to be just the start of a reckoning for the Trump administration and its weaponization of government against our country,” Thompson wrote in a statement. “Donald Trump and Kristi Noem must be held accountable for the immigration operations creating chaos in our communities, terrorizing people, and hurting U.S. citizens and immigrants alike.”
House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) called for the oversight hearing roughly a week after ICE killed a woman in Minneapolis.
Federal immigration authorities sent to Minneapolis in early December and more than 3,000 were sent in by January following the revelation of a billion-dollar fraud scheme carried out by U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants from Somalia. In that time, the DHS and partner agencies at the Justice Department have arrested more than 4,000 illegal immigrants, but the effort has been met with the harshest blowback to date of half a dozen “sanctuary” cities that the Trump administration has tried to make examples of.
Democrats are likely to focus their questions of acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott on Tuesday on the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti; the instructions that federal agents and officers in Minneapolis were given while making arrests; and what led to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s mischaracterization of the Pretti shooting.
House Democrats have called for a hearing with Noem and senior DHS officials as the Trump administration has attempted to carry out mass …
DHS leaders face tense oversight hearing in Congress: ‘The start of a reckoning’
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
House lawmakers on Tuesday will get their first opportunity since President Donald Trump took office to question Department of Homeland Security agency leaders about the White House’s illegal immigrant deportation operation.
The leaders of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee for its first oversight hearing for the trio of immigration agencies — and the hourslong showdown on Capitol Hill is expected to be a fiery one.
Lawmakers are trying to renegotiate the terms of a $64 billion DHS funding bill before it runs out Friday, while ICE and CBP face widespread criticism from Democrats over the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota last month.
The committee’s ranking member, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), told the Washington Examiner on Monday that he envisioned the hearing as the “start of a reckoning.”
“This hearing is going to be just the start of a reckoning for the Trump administration and its weaponization of government against our country,” Thompson wrote in a statement. “Donald Trump and Kristi Noem must be held accountable for the immigration operations creating chaos in our communities, terrorizing people, and hurting U.S. citizens and immigrants alike.”
House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) called for the oversight hearing roughly a week after ICE killed a woman in Minneapolis.
Federal immigration authorities sent to Minneapolis in early December and more than 3,000 were sent in by January following the revelation of a billion-dollar fraud scheme carried out by U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants from Somalia. In that time, the DHS and partner agencies at the Justice Department have arrested more than 4,000 illegal immigrants, but the effort has been met with the harshest blowback to date of half a dozen “sanctuary” cities that the Trump administration has tried to make examples of.
Democrats are likely to focus their questions of acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott on Tuesday on the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti; the instructions that federal agents and officers in Minneapolis were given while making arrests; and what led to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s mischaracterization of the Pretti shooting.
House Democrats have called for a hearing with Noem and senior DHS officials as the Trump administration has attempted to carry out mass …
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