Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 6, committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) announced Thursday.
Goodlatte said in a statement:
“The Department of Homeland Security has the important responsibilities of protecting our borders, enforcing immigration laws, and keeping Americans, the President, and other leaders safe from harm. The House Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over many of Homeland Security’s component agencies – including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the U.S. Secret Service – and next week we will hear from Secretary Nielsen on the many challenges the Department faces as it carries out its duties. We look forward to having Secretary Nielsen testify before the Committee on the issues before the Department and how Congress can provide legislative assistance.”
LOL! That statement reads like an advertisement for pro-Trump/pro-Nielsen/anti-immigrant kabuki theater.
They just want to get this hearing in before the Dems can have one. Guaranteed when the Dems call her to testify before them because this hearing doesn’t give them the opportunity to test her on the tear gas, family separations, child abuse allegations, abject failures in planning, ignorance and deliberate ignoring of the actual ayslum laws, etc., Goodlatte will be screaming about how she “already testified.”
Empirical testing of “natural,” “nacho-worthy,” “harmless” tear gas could not find a better subject. Have at it.
The only good thing is that she will be so intent on sucking up to Donnie that she will most likely leave enough holes in her testimony to provide the Dems with specific questions to justify calling her back again.
Hmm which way to go here Herr Goodlatte, are you setting little Kirstjen up to please Donnie, or are you really trying foil the Dems in the next session?
It certainly sounds like a fair and balanced hearing.