House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said this week that Democrats are prepared to put Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem under immediate scrutiny if they regain control of the House in the upcoming midterm elections.
Speaking on “The Bulwark” podcast, Jeffries singled out Noem as a likely first witness before a Democratic-led Congress.
“It’s my expectation that Kristi Noem will be one of the first people hauled up to Congress shortly after the gavels change hands to get a real understanding for the American people as to this conduct that has taken place: the lack of respect for due process, for the rule of law, the unleashing of masked agents on law-abiding immigrant communities, and the disappearing of people in some instances, to other countries without any real evidence that criminal behavior took place,” Jeffries said.
The New York Democrat accused the administration of disregarding basic constitutional protections.
He argued that federal agents had overstepped their authority in deportation operations, sometimes uprooting families with no criminal records.
According to Jeffries, even U.S. citizen children had been sent abroad “to a place that they’ve never known.”
At the center of his criticism is the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act,