![Homeland Security Hearing Previews Immigrant Fearmongering To Come](/static/images/error.jpg)
Homeland Security Hearing Previews Immigrant Fearmongering To Come
Huff PostKristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for her confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington on Friday. Kristi Noem, Trump’s pick to oversee the department that runs border and interior immigration enforcement, claimed the Biden administration has “let in” thousands of murderers and hundreds of suspected terrorists over the past four years — but that’s not true, according to data from the same department Noem is hoping to run. Separately in the hearing, Sen. Bernie Moreno claimed Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary under President Joe Biden, had “allowed” around 400 people on the terrorism watch list, formally known as the “terrorist screening data set,” to “come into this country illegally.” Noem cited similar figures. Notably, Noem changed her wording when referring to the DHS data, depending on the president: She said the Biden administration had “let in” people on the watch list, but that during the Trump administration, people on the list “were then removed from the country and faced consequences.” Republicans’ focus on people on the watch list sneaking in over the southern border is also misleading. Andrew Harnik via Getty Images Finally, Noem and Moreno went back and forth over a number Trump repeatedly lied about on the campaign trail: that Mayorkas had “let in about 12,000 murderers.” Moreno appeared to be referring to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “non-detained docket.” Data released last year by ICE, which is housed within DHS, showed there were 13,099 people with past homicide convictions on ICE’s non-detained docket as of July.
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