Kristi Noem

And we are showing that every day by the support we get across the country, the amount of people that we're recruiting to all of our different agencies.

Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power?

Excuse me, would you say that again?

You would have heard me if you stopped talking and listened to my questions.

Do you agree that using DHS resources to target members of Congress is an abuse of power?

We are not doing that.

We are out there enforcing the law, doing our work, and we are allowing over- Of course, we're not going to get any answers.

With that, Mr. Chairman.

What keeps me up at night is that we don't necessarily know all of the people that are in this country, who they are and what their intentions are.

We think up to 15 to 20 million people came in under the Biden administration on the invasion over the southern border.

They were not vetted.

They were allowed to pour in our parole programs, our asylum programs.

Our visa programs were all exploited and the integrity was demolished under Joe Biden and the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security.

And frankly, the entire department was neglected.

And that is why we are so aggressive at making sure that we're going out and doing investigative work, finding those violent criminals, finding those people who shouldn't be in this country to begin with, and those that want to go after and to harm our American citizens.

Sir, I'm grateful for every single person that has served our country and follows our laws.

Every day we're able to go out and encounter and bring to justice individuals

who are raping our children, murdering our mothers, our grandmothers, our families are devastated by them.

And I'm shocked at the Democrats' constant defense of these individual criminals over the American citizen.

I think it's shameful to see the defense of individuals who break our laws.