At Thursday's Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) questioned DHS Secretary Kristi Noem about opposition to illegal immigration.
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00:00They believe that vetting people at the border is racist?
00:05Yes, I do. I think by the way they allowed people in and granted them immediate parole status.
00:10Do you think that President Biden and some of my Democratic colleagues,
00:15I don't want to paint with too broad a brush, Madam Secretary,
00:18thought of these foreign nationals in our country illegally as potential new voters?
00:24I do, sir.
00:25Okay. If you're an ordinary American and you oppose illegal immigration,
00:38but you support legal immigration, does that make you a racist?
00:43No, sir. No, sir. Not at all. It just means that you believe there should be a rule of law,
00:49and that's what America was built on.
00:51And that's what you've been enforcing, right?
00:53Exactly. We have been following the Constitution and the rule of law in this country.
00:57And I want to be sure I understand, because there's been a lot of confusing testimony here.
01:05You've secured the border, have you not?
01:07This administration has, yes, sir.
01:10And some of my colleagues are upset with you.
01:14Yes, sir.
01:15And they say you did it wrong.
01:17Yes, sir.
01:18And do you agree with me that what they're really upset about is that you did it at all?
01:24Yes, sir.