At today's House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) questioned DHS Sec. Kristi Noem about CISA.
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00:00Due process. The gentleman's time has expired. I now recognize Ms. Green for five minutes of questioning.
00:05Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Democrats have spent the last four years terrorizing Americans with
00:11their open border policies. They flooded our communities with over 13 million illegals from
00:17over 170 countries and territories who invaded our borders, raped our women and children,
00:24and murdered our own people. It's shocking to hear them to continue to defend cartels,
00:31MS-13, and terrorists today. Democrats claimed over and over again that legislation was needed
00:37to fix the problems, the problems that they created. Yet to this day, no new border legislation
00:43has been enacted and border crossings are down 93%. It was just reported that according to CBP,
00:51only five aliens were temporarily released into the United States in all of April. Only five.
01:00This is compared to the 68,000 released in April of 2024 under the Biden administration.
01:07Thank you, Secretary Noem, for your great work and your leadership. This is truly saving America.
01:15There's nothing Democrats love more than defending the cartels, the criminals, and the rapists,
01:20and now we finally have a president in the White House in an administration that defends the American
01:26people. As you're aware, Secretary Noem, CISA previously developed a censorship laundering scheme
01:33through its counter-miss, diss, and mal-information, MDM, efforts that suppress conservative opinions
01:40and went after President Trump's supporters. Members of Congress, senators, including myself,
01:47were permanently banned. I was permanently banned on Twitter under this. What started as an election
01:52interference campaign eventually developed into censoring issues well beyond the election and COVID
02:00and climate change. Through their NGO partnerships, tickets were created on post they thought were
02:08misinformation and subsequently sent to social media platforms with recommendations for them to be
02:15censored. Would you please provide an update on your efforts to investigate the severity of MDM efforts
02:23during the Biden regime and what steps are you taking to ensure CISA will never again serve as the United States
02:31government's Ministry of Truth?
02:33Yeah. Thank you, Congressman. The CISA definitely was so far off mission that they forgot what their purpose
02:44clearly was. The CISA was created to hunt down bad actors and to harden our systems, to support local infrastructure,
02:51critical infrastructure that makes this country run, and those small and medium-sized businesses
02:55that don't have the resources to make sure that their software programs, their technology was secure
03:02from hackers and from bad actors around the world. Instead, what they were doing by out there deciding what was
03:07truth, what wasn't truth, censoring what people could say was not their mission whatsoever. And so we have stopped
03:13those activities. We have refocused our resources back onto the cyber security mission and ensured that
03:19CISA is cooperating with our local and state individuals and businesses to make sure that we're truly being
03:25proactive at not just hardening our systems, but stopping the attacks that we have from countries that hate us.
03:31So the Ministry of Truth, as what CISA was operating before, was wrongful actions that were taken by employees
03:40of this administration, the last administration, to go after political targets, to manipulate the information
03:49that Americans were receiving, and that has stopped. We have fallen far behind in what we've been able to do
03:55as far as cooperating with other intelligence agencies and with those at the state level to make sure that we're being
04:00proactive. And that's one thing that we have focused extremely hard on in the last several months is
04:06ensuring that those relationships are built back up, that we're partnering with private businesses to get
04:11the support that we need to make sure that we are hardening America's systems because we're vulnerable
04:17to our weakest link. And oftentimes our weakest link is that small business or individual that ties into our
04:24largest systems. Yes. Thank you. No American should be censored by their government for their political beliefs
04:30and their statements. Absolutely. Thank you for that. Also, the Trump administration has committed
04:35to reuniting unaccompanied alien children lost or trafficked under the Biden-Harris administration
04:42back to their families and guardians. What efforts is DHS taking to ensure that these vulnerable children
04:49are safely reunited with their loved ones because the Biden administration lost hundreds of thousands of
04:56children? Yes, absolutely. We know that there was upwards to over 300,000 children that were lost
05:02during the last administration. So President Trump has made it a priority of every cabinet secretary and
05:09agency to make sure those children are located, that they are returned to safety. As you know, the refugee
05:14program and sponsors were greatly abused under the previous administration. And the Department of HHS is
05:22bringing some integrity back to that program and making sure that these children are cared for,
05:26appropriately, and that someone is watching over them that truly has their best interests at heart,
05:33that really truly cares for them as a family member. I would say over 5,000 have been found,
05:37and our HSI individuals and law enforcement officers are continuing to identify them.
05:42Gentle lady's time has expired. I now recognize Ms. Ramirez for five minutes of question.