'I Don't Know How You Explain That': Kristi Noem Blows Up Over Illegal Immigration Question

At a press briefing on Saturday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was asked about asylum processes.

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00:00and to be a part of the American Dream.

00:01Secretary, is that still the idea of folks leaving and coming back legally?

00:05It makes sense, but there have been ICE agents and others at immigration courts

00:09and folks presumably trying to go through that legal process, the asylum process, and immigration courts.

00:14Well, asylum's completely different, though, than a work visa.

00:18I mean, asylum, you have to be threatened by your government,

00:20and you have to have a real threat against you.

00:23And we are adding integrity back into these programs and how they're utilized.

00:28So we're not going to allow somebody to claim asylum that doesn't qualify like Joe Biden did.

00:32Joe Biden just let people walk into this country and say,

00:35okay, asylum, go be free, and did that for tens of thousands of people

00:39who were violent and a part of MS-13 and TDA.

00:43So...

00:43Not people who have overstayed, who we had to go look for,

00:50people who had final removal orders, people that didn't follow the law.

00:54I don't know how you explain that to the American people.

00:57Say, okay, you have to obey every single law,

01:00and when you break the law, there's consequences for it.

01:02But then you say, but anybody from any other country, you get to wave that away?

01:06That's absolutely insanity.

01:08No country does that.

01:09There's nobody that actually defends that,

01:12except for the fake news and a bunch of liberals,

01:15who actually are turning out to be communists and Marxists.

01:17They're not just liberals anymore.

01:19If you look at the Democrat Party, they're a party of communists and Marxists and socialists.

01:23So I would completely say nobody defends that.

01:26No American that I've talked to on the streets across this country

01:29will defend allowing illegal aliens to be treated better than American citizens.

01:34That's not what our founders intended.

01:36They came here to be free and to have liberty and fought for this country.

01:41And they fought the biggest military giant in the world that existed

01:45with their own personal handguns and muskets that they used to feed their families

01:49to give us this country.

01:51You think we're just going to let it go away?

01:53Absolutely not.

01:54I've got kids and grandkids that I'm going to fight every day for

01:57to make sure that they get the same chance to grow up with the opportunities

01:59that I had the chance to grow up with.