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Lou Correa Confronts Kristi Noem About Deportation Of U.S. Children, DHS Personnel Decisions
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5/14/2025
At today's House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA) questioned DHS Sec. Kristi Noem about the deportation of U.S. children with their parents.
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...sent to introduce the article from PBS NewsHour entitled Children Who Are U.S. Citizens Deported
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Along With Foreign Mothers, in which the attorney for that four-year-old U.S. citizen says that
00:11
at no time did his mother consent to the child U.S. citizen being removed from the country.
00:16
Without objection, so ordered, and I recognize Mr. Correa for five minutes of questions.
00:21
Thank you, Mr. Secretary. First of all, Secretary Noem, welcome to this committee.
00:26
I had the honor of hearing testimony from Secretary Kelly, Secretary Mayorkas, and, of course, you.
00:33
Welcome. We all have the same interests, which are protecting Americans, American taxpayers,
00:40
as we move forward in our jobs. And I want to say that your testimony, my colleague from Louisiana,
00:45
myself, have the same interests, which are to protect Americans, especially to protect children,
00:52
especially to protect American citizen children. That's where my concern is, Madam Secretary,
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that your administration, I believe, has consistently violated the law by denying due process
01:06
to U.S.-born American children. Under your watch, you've deported American children, U.S.-born children.
01:16
Some of the examples. I only have five minutes to talk about, but I'll come back to the case that
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was described or discussed a little while ago, which was two American children, four and seven,
01:28
were put on a plane with their mother, sent to Honduras within 24 hours of being detained.
01:34
There was an attorney involved, and we're debating right now the issue, as if you stated,
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that the mother wanted the child to go with her, but there was an attorney involved.
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That person was not consulted. That family was denied the opportunity to talk to that attorney.
01:53
The attorney was there. What is wrong with asking the attorney? You've got a family that
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had been checking in, following ICE direction. Check in. Bring your family to check in.
02:07
They weren't let out. That happens in my district all the time. Families check in to ICE.
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If ICE determines they should be deported, do you know what we do? I call ICE and I say,
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give them 30 days. Some of these families have been in this country 20, 30 years.
02:25
Give them 30 days to get their situation in order. Make sure that they figure out how to keep their
02:30
American children in the U.S. Make them, give them the opportunity to make an educated decision
02:37
on the lives of American citizens. In this case and other cases, ma'am, you have split-second
02:45
decisions to make a decision on those children. And you, Madam Secretary, also make split-second
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decisions based on whatever coerced discussion you're having with that mother. And I say coerced
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because when you're scared to death, your life is about to change, and you've got attorney next door
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that you will not permit that family to consult with that attorney, you've got an issue.
03:09
Case number two, two-year-old American daughter also deported to Honduras.
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They were also denied access to their lawyers. According to her lawyer, ICE prevented the mother
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from speaking to the lawyer or anyone else in the family.
03:26
Two-year-old American citizen. Can't we slow it down and just take a moment before
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they're deported in 24 hours? The mom didn't want the daughter to stay in the United States.
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They may have had relatives in the United States. Family.
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Even the own Trump-appointed federal judge overseeing this case has said that he had a
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strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful due process.
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Madam Secretary, I think we're all in agreement here. Let's go after MS-13. Let's go after drug dealers.
04:07
Let's go after Trendria Grua, the bad folks who hurt my community as well as everybody else's community.
04:14
But I failed to see where a child, two-year-old, four-year-old, seven-year-old children
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could be on your top of priorities for deportations. This is still America. Due process, the Fifth Amendment.
04:28
Madam Secretary, I know ICE agents. I deal with them all the time. I've toured the southern border.
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Blue uniforms, green uniforms, talking to them about what they need to do the job.
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More than happy to have that discussion with you publicly or privately.
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But deporting U.S.-born children, ignoring their attorneys, take a deep breath.
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You've been here 20, 30 years.
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A lot of the times back home, when I ask the ICE agents, give them 30 days, you know what?
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Without fail, that person comes back or self-deports.
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We can do better. Madam Secretary, I'm going to ask you one last question in nine seconds.
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You're under oath. Have you fired, retired, dismissed any DSA agents that have not followed your policies?
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What kind of agents, sir?
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DHS, Homeland Security agents. Yes.
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Specific law enforcement officers?
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Yes, ma'am. Officers under your watch.
05:32
I haven't given any specific orders to any law enforcement officers under the Department of Homeland Security.
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So there are, within the Department of Homeland Security, 280,000 employees.
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47,000 of them are Coast Guard individuals.
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So, you know, 230,000 individuals are employees, and we're very proud of the work that they do.
05:56
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for recognizing that it's police week.
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We have many agencies that have law enforcement officers in them that get up every single day to serve their communities
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and to make sure that our laws matter and that they're enforced appropriately
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and that no one is treated differently than someone else.
06:13
The gentleman's time has expired. I now recognize Mr. Guest from Mississippi.
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Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to enter for the record.
06:21
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