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Senator Kim brings up ICE arresting people at USCIS appointments and and raids at hospitals. Mullen is pretty non-commital, though said he supports law enforcement... Kim says he had to give his own father in law instructions in case he was detained when reentering the U.S.

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Mullen again refuses to allow local law enforcement to investigate when ICE or CBP kill a U.S. citizen when asked by Sen. Hassan. This has been a major ask of Minnesota citizens

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Sen. Peters makes it very clear that Republicans are holding hostage funding for TSA, FEMA and CISA in order to block negotiations on ICE/CBP reforms.

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Slotkin brings up election deniers. Mullen refuses to say that Biden won the 2020 election. He also refuses to rule out putting DHS officers at polling places (claiming there could be a threat, except what type of DHS officers respond to threats of that kind?! They aren't the FBI)

Sen. Slotkin raises ICE violence and racial profiling, and asks Mullen what he would be willing to do to reform ICE and regain trust. He seems to blame local law enforcement for ICE's actions and say there doesn't need to be a new law. Slotkin doesn't agree.

Senator Fetterman says how proud he is to have cosponsored the Laken Riley Act, which allows for immigrants to be jailed without the possibility of bond. Many Democrats have said how much they regret voting for it. Supporting that law at this point in the Trump administration is unconscionable

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Senator Kim raises, like Hassan, how ICE is buying up warehouses to turn into prisons despite local opposition. Mullen says that community should be consulted on impact. Given Miller seems to be trying to spend the reconciliation slush funds as soon as possible, I feel doubtful, again.

Blumenthal also asks about ICE breaking into people's house, without warrants. He asks Mullen if ICE will stop doing so. Mullen says that he will do so, unless they're pursuing someone. Color be dubious. When asked about how ICE are trained on this, he is less clear

Blumenthal asks whether Mullen will implement ICE quotas set by Steven Miller. Mullen seems to have little to say, basically that he would do what he's told

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Hassan asks whether he will push forward with the ICE prison warehouse in NH that their Republican governor got cancelled after outrage in the state. Mullen doesn't say whether he would do so or not, or if he would open warehouses in the face of local opposition

In a back and forth with Hassan, Mullen claims he'll operate under the laws, but then resorts back to the "just enforcing the laws" claim that Noem used to defend her chaotic violence I'm not feeling confident in this, given he just claimed Trump would never ask him to break the law, feels dubious

Hassan correct the record, ICE has more money than god right now and Dems are totally willing to fund other DHS components

Peters asks Mullen about his disparaging and blaming of Good and Pretti, including calling Pretti "deranged". Mullen says he shouldn't have said that and regrets it. Though he refuses to apologize to Pretti's family due to the "investigation"

Sen. Peter's kicks off by asking Mullen about his claims to be involved in overseas "special security forces." "Other than vacations with your family, have you ever traveled to another country" "No." Though sounds like he went as a Senator to some countries later. But is this stolen valor?

"Is that your opinion, that political disputes can only be solved by violence?" "No, I don't always believe that" And then Mullen claims that repeating his own words is character assassination🤪 And then goes on to support political duals??? Like the caning of Sumner? Good god this is WILD

Mullen at least differentiates himself from Noem by saying he can admit when he makes mistakes... right after refusing to apologize for basically supporting violence against Paul

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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

As Mullen gives his opening, he tried to defend his own nasty words around Paul but doesn't seem to express much remorse and pretty much insults him. With a lot of head shaking and frowns, Paul doesn't seem to be very pleased 👀

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You could drive an oil tanker through these loopholes

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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

This is how Fox News frames the deaths of Pretti and Good. No wonder some people feel little urgency to address ICE and CBP violence www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...

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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Pretty grossly misleading text message from a group opposing the VA redistricting

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Booker also brought up the prison warehouses ICE is buying up, which haven't gotten nearly enough attention. One in NJ cost $129m but was assessed for half of that and was opposed by local Republican-elected officials. As a reminder, this is money ICE got because Congress cut Medicaid

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@booker.senate.gov calls out ICE for raiding schools and bus stops. Noem tries to deny that they conduct immigration enforcement there but he has receipts.

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Ha boy, Tillis gets into how Noem's proud story about killing her dog and goat illustrate how she can't admit to making mistakes but is in fact deeply inexperienced in all she attempts. He finishes by saying she's been blocking oversight investigations and needs to resign

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Tillis TEARS INTO Noem. He doesn't ask her a question but instead, truly pissed off, goes into the disaster of ICE's indiscriminate enforcement and culture of Miller's rhetoric. There are very much both Democrats and Republicans who are pretty pissed about Noem's leadership.

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Senator Hirono calls out instances of violence and then directly ties it into the lies and permissive lawless from DHS and WH leadership

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@hirono.senate.gov also raised our lawsuit about Guatemalan children who are supposed to be protected from deportation and how DHS lied about why they were doing it. Noem refuses to admit they lied, again, blaming "activist judges" for their failures

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Blumenthal also raises the Lyon memo, that allows ICE raids without judicial warrants. She defends their use of administrative warrants.

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@blumenthal.senate.gov says DHS admitted to him that they have arrested and detained dozens of U.S. citizens. Three of them are in the hearing room. Noem refuses to say that ICE arresting citizens, targeting someone because they look "Mexican," or shooting people in their cars is wrong.

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Also responding to @coons.senate.gov, Noem refuses to rule out ICE at election polling places, though she claims there are no plans for it (blaming immigrants for voting for if they did)

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Oh my god. Not only did Noem refuse to apologize to Alex Pretti's parents for calling him a domestic terrorist, she plays semantics saying, no, she never did that, she said it was an "incident of domestic terrorism."

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Noem refuses to admit anything was wrong when ChongLY Thao's door was rammed in by ICE and he was dragged, in his underwear, into subzero temperatures. She says they needed to "identify" him. Abhorrent.

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Responding to @klobuchar.senate.gov Noem affirms there are still 600+ agents in MN. The so-called drawdown, of course, is not reality, and she continues to falsely blame "fraud" for their presence. Of course, fraud is perpetuated by government contractors, not immigrants.

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Also very interesting, Kennedy is unhappy that Noem blamed the "domestic terrorism" comments around the MN killings on Steven Miller. And she tries to blame "annonymous sources" and gets corrected, she said it on the record. This Secretary seems to be not very popular right now

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