A left-wing protester was removed from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Department of Homeland Security oversight with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday after she began shouting over the proceedings and hurling accusations about alleged victims of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
According to Gateway Pundit, the disruption erupted as Noem was testifying and Democrats were pressing their usual narrative against immigration enforcement. The woman suddenly yelled, 200 Americans were killed by ICE, before invoking the names of Keith Porter Jr. and Dr. Linda Davis, they were Americans killed by ICE, and demanding of the panel, Say their names, followed by the chant, Their black lives matter.
The facts behind those cases undercut the protesters claims. Keith Porter was reportedly shot by an off-duty ICE officer outside his apartment building only after Porter began firing a gun into the air, and a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said the agent was forced to defensively use his weapon, describing Porter as an active shooter.
In the case of Linda Davis, she was not killed by ICE but actually murdered by a Guatemalan illegal alien, who was fleeing ICE, highlighting the very public-safety concerns conservatives have long raised about lax border and immigration policies. Yet as Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) questioned Noem, the activist continued to shout from the back of the room, turning a formal oversight hearing into a stage for anti-ICE sloganeering.
The outbursts did not stop there. Earlier in the hearing, when Noem was sworn in, another woman was escorted out after interrupting and yelling, Kristi Noem, you should be ashamed of yourself, and, You have disgraced our agency.
That protester went on to insist, FEMA employees should be responding to disasters, not ICE! and then repeatedly chanted, You should be ashamed of yourself, and, Your staff say abolish ICE! The coordinated disruptions underscored how the lefts activist class increasingly prefers theatrical confrontation over honest debate, even as the real toll of illegal immigration and the need for strong enforcement remain at the center of the national conversation.
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