Kristi Noem
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Well, I got to look at this myself.
In her memo, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem argued that unannounced visits take ICE officers away from their normal duties.
And she argued that visiting lawmakers are creating, quote, circus-like publicity stunts.
The memo was made public on Saturday, but it was filed Thursday, just a day after an ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, sparking intense criticism and nationwide protests.
And some Democratic lawmakers have already been turned away from visiting ICE facilities.
On Saturday, three House Democrats said they were denied access to an ICE processing center in Minneapolis.
They were attempting to push out their vehicle, and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.
That's not what happened.
We all saw what happened.
You said that the woman attacked them and surrounded them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yesterday on CNN on the heightened risks immigration officials know they're facing. We've seen vehicles weaponized over a hundred times in the last several months against our law enforcement officers. So they definitely know that the threat is real, that individuals who are trained by activists to go out and to impede their law enforcement operations will weaponize their vehicles and try to run them over and drag them and not stop. So they certainly go into these situations with that knowledge that that could happen
We're sending more officers today and tomorrow.
They'll arrive.
There'll be hundreds more in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely.
We're going to continue to, if they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that's a crime.
And we will hold them accountable to those consequences.
We're sending more officers today and tomorrow.
They'll arrive.
There'll be hundreds more in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely.