Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared on “Face the Nation” with far-left host Margaret Brennan and unsurprisingly shut her down during one critical part of their interview. She also made a significant announcement in the process.
Noem was invited on to discuss the United States’ ongoing trade war with Canada and Mexico, border crossings, and those leaking information on raids within the department. When the subject turned to border security, Brennan attempted to shame her over the illegal alien kids in ICE detention centers with their parents in Texas, a policy revived by the Trump Administration after Joe Biden ditched it.
Noem calmly responded that by correctly pointing out everyone has a choice and that people always have the option of going back home and staying together that way. Undeterred, Brennan tried claiming the children do not have a choice, but Noem quickly shut her down with a simple reminder: kids do have a choice.
Brennan later tried again to challenge her on the Trump Administration’a reviving the law but Noem quickly brushed her aside with another reminder: pointing out by Biden never followed law, especially on immigration.
Full transcript of exchange via CBS News:
MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about what’s happening internally when it comes to, excuse me, migration. The administration has revived this policy of detaining migrant families, parents with children in ICE detention centers. Bush did it, Obama did it, Biden did not. Have you seen these Texas facilities where children are being held with their parents? Are you comfortable with it personally?
SECRETARY NOEM: We’ve got detention facilities across the country, and there’s specific ones that are built specifically for families if they are detained. But remember, everybody has an option. They have an option to be here legally or illegally, and they can self-deport as well. We’ve set up a system and a website where people who are here illegally right now can register, and they can choose to go home on their own and keep their families united.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The kids don’t really have a choice in this–
SECRETARY NOEM: Well, the kids do have a choice. If they have parents, they make a choice to keep their families together, if they want to or not. They- if parents make a decision to leave their children behind, then that’s a choice that they made as a family. And we need to remember that when Americans break the law and they have consequences or face a situation, they’re separated from their families, too. I don’t believe we should prioritize people from other countries above Americans.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But when it comes to reviving the policy of separating families from their children at the border–
SECRETARY NOEM: I don’t know that we’re actually reviving it–
MARGARET BRENNAN: That’s what I want to ask you–
SECRETARY NOEM: –President Biden didn’t follow the law.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You won’t?
SECRETARY NOEM: He didn’t follow the law in the fact that it’s always been equally applied until his administration, and then he made decisions to ignore federal law in how he handled immigration and enforcement within our borders.
Here is a video of the second part of the exchange:
.@Sec_Noem shuts down the Fake News’ attempt to pin ‘family separation’ on President Trump: “I don’t know that we’re actually reviving it, it’s that President Biden didn’t follow the law. He didn’t follow the law in the fact that it’s always been equally applied until his… pic.twitter.com/vWlaopl7ZJ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 9, 2025
Noem then announced that she had hired a new ICE director and deputy director. As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello was fired last month amid reports President Trump was unhappy with the pace of deportations.
“Today, we’re expanding our team at ICE,” she told Brennan. “We’re going to have an acting director in Todd Lyons, who has a long history with Tom Homan.”
We’re also naming a Deputy Secretary in Madison Sheehan,” she added. “They have done incredible work cleaning up our communities and making them safer.”
“Adding more to the team with Todd and Madison is going to allow us to partner with local law enforcement officials to ensure that we are truly following through on enforcing the law.”
WATCH:
For the past four years, our brave men and women of ICE were barred from doing their jobs—ICE needs a culture of accountability that it has been starved of under the Biden Administration.
With President Trump’s support, I am appointing new ICE leadership to deliver results that… pic.twitter.com/cI8MNHLzEK
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) March 9, 2025
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