Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss topics including the government’s response to the Texas flood and ICE operations in California.
“There has been a lot of back and forth about what the Federal response was or wasn’t, so I want to just come to you. Let’s separate a little fact from fiction,” Bream said of the response to the Texas floods.
“As soon as this flooding started early in the morning, I was on the phone with the Lieutenant Governor, with the Governor, with the emergency responders that were there on the ground and said what do you need and then got on a plane and headed there as soon as I possibly could,” Noem said.
“The Coast Guard had been immediately deployed as soon as we finished our phone calls. We also deployed our border protection, our CBP and our patrol folks,” Noem continued.
“This memo and this criticism I think is all politics because I was there. I was there, and every time somebody asked for something we said absolutely it will be here as soon as possible,” Noem explained.
Bream also asked Secretary Noem about ICE operations in California. A Biden-appointed federal judge put a temporary restraining order which interfered with ICE in California.
“A Federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against a lot of the ICE operations that have been carried out in southern California,” Bream said.
“What do you do with this ruling? Does it go to the 9th Circuit? Do you do an emergency appeal to SCOTUS?” Bream asked.
“This Federal judge’s ruling is ridiculous. We never ran our operations that way. We always built our operations, our investigations on case work, on knowing individuals that we needed to target because they were criminals,” Noem explained.
“It’s been done exactly how law enforcement has operated for many years in this country and ICE is out there making sure we get the worst of the worst off of the streets,” Noem said.
Secretary Noem also explained that a number of Federal judges in the US are using the bench to make decisions that are politically motivated rather than applying the law objectively.
“We’ve seen this across the country over and over and over again where judges are getting political. It’s not their job. I hope they can bring some dignity back to the bench because we certainly are lacking it now from many of these Federal judges,” Noem continued.
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WATCH: @Sec_Noem calls the federal judge’s temporary restraining order against ICE operations in California ridiculous: “We will appeal.” pic.twitter.com/AH1kKIpNoz
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