At Wednesday’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Democratic New York Rep. Dan Goldman clashed with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who did not get due process, which is afforded to everyone in the US according to the Constitution.
“Will you give Mr. Abrego-Garcia the due process that the Supreme Court and Judge Wilkinson have required you to give him?” Goldman asked Noem.
“Abrego-Garcia is an El Salvador resident who is in his home country,” Noem said, missing the entire point. “If he were to come back to this country, he would be immediately removed again.”
“How do you know?” Goldman asked.
“He has received and been treated appropriately, sir, and he is not in this country anymore,” Noem insisted.
“How can you say he’s been treated appropriately if the Supreme Court has ruled 9-0, 9-0 that he hasn’t been treated appropriately?” Goldman shot back. “Why is your opinion better and has more authority than the Supreme Court?”
“We had two judges, investigators, two judges, an immigration court that all said he was MS-13 and was removed from this country,” Noem lied.
“But you understand, that is you saying that,” Goldman said. “That is you saying that.”
“That is them saying that,” she said.
