'They're Protecting Criminals': DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Puts Sanctuary City Mayors On Blast

During a press briefing on Monday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem criticized Democratic mayors of major cities for their immigration policies.

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00:00sanctuary city and policies and to change their tactics right now their job is to take an oath

00:08to protect the public to their every single day provide for each other and to try to live the

00:15American dream and they want to do so safely in their own communities how many more lives will

00:20it take how many more people have to be hurt and victimized before we have public safety be a number

00:25one priority in some of our largest cities when I look at what mayor Adams to see the families that

00:33have suffered because of his policies we can look across this country at other mayors we look at

00:39mayor Wu in Boston and what has happened there under her watch what's happened in LA with the

00:44riots and the violence and the protests that have gone on because of mayor bass and what she has

00:49perpetuated when you look at mayor Johnson in Chicago and how devastating it is to live in

00:54that city and some of those poorest communities how they suffer every single day with the violence

00:59that's in front of them just because these individuals are protecting criminals they're

01:04protecting criminals who go out and murder rape rob they stay perpetuate violence on our children

01:11they traffic them and drugs and damage this country every single day under the protection of sanctuary city

01:18and governors who put in place these policies that allow them to perpetuate these crimes with no

01:25consequences what I would say is today my hope is that this would wake up these individuals and they

01:30would recognize that they can't keep letting these dangerous criminals go free they can't continue to

01:36let these individuals be brought in for crimes are committing against the public and then releasing them

01:41right back onto the streets with no consequences whatsoever fortunately for us today our officer

01:48survived he survived he's going through a very difficult time and I would ask that you respect him

01:53and his family and his friend who was with him and what they have gone through but I would also say

01:58that we can't guarantee that the next victim of these dangerous criminals will be will be treated the

02:03same or we'll be able to get through this dangerous situation