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Video highlights from @SecNielsen's testimony before the House committee on border security 
#NielsenHearing
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Here is Kirstjen Nielsen having trouble answering "yes" or "no" questions by
@RepKathleenRice. One of the more troubling responses: Rep Rice: Why did you wait... to issue implementation guidelines? KN: ...to ensure we could do it in an appropriately safe way w/ compassion...pic.twitter.com/tDZ8bmDOgBShow this thread
.@RepKathleenRice asks @SecNielsen about environmental issues:
"During your tenure as secretary, how many times have you waived environmental regulations required under the:
-endangered species act...
-clean water act...
-clean air act...
...for border/barrier construction?"pic.twitter.com/hHQBumSphs
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@RepClayHiggins from Louisiana mentions a story of a "Honduran gentlemen" who "had a brand new pacemaker surgically implanted" & that "American taxpayers gave this man a pacemaker for crossing the country illegally. We're certainly a compassionate and generous nation."#Nielsenpic.twitter.com/r2FDr2zHJwShow this thread -
Former CIA officer & DoD official
@RepSlotkin: "I'm a big believer in border security & have spent my life preventing homeland attacks. But I also believe we have to be a country of morals and values ...the separation of children... we can not be a country that perpetuates that."pic.twitter.com/zQJcTO3dIXShow this thread -
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@RepSlotkin: Did you initiate the separation of families for the express purpose of deterring families from coming to the Unites States?@SecNielsen: No. I did not. Rep Slotkin: So what did you do... when you saw those pictures of babies in cages? What did you do?!#Nielsenpic.twitter.com/WDuQL9ZICJShow this thread -
"...I feel like all the attention has been focused on the southern border when in reality the volume of trade… & the people watchlisted… is much higher coming through the northern border"
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@RepKathleenRice: "I think it's important to... make the record clear, it was a policy announced by the AG of this country that families were going to be separated... it was a policy by this administration…this was not the law... I think it's important the record reflect that"pic.twitter.com/JnAnLp7QWJShow this thread -
Chairman
@BennieGThompson asks if children are still in cages. Nielsen's response: KN: Sir they are not cages. Chairman: What are they? KN: They are areas of the border facility that are carved out for the safety and protection of those who remain...
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"The choreography is...amazing. When the dems ask a question… you never have the answer... & you're gonna get back to us. When the repubs ask a question... you're right on top of that w/ stats & #'s. You got it all right down there in front of ya." -
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"There is a great deal of obfuscation… you say <zero tolerance> is not a policy it’s the law / you’re obeying the law / no it is a policy, you’re not doing it now / if you’re not doing it are you breaking the law. Which is it?"
@repdinatitus on Kirstjen Nielsen's obscure answerspic.twitter.com/0O72Pn1diCShow this thread -
"...You said cyber security is a red light that's blinking & that's the most dangerous thing that's facing this country. Yet you requested $8 billon for a wall & only $1.35 billion to deal w/ cyber security. That seems to me a kinda misplaced priorities there."
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@repdinatitus on the border personnel vacancy problems with@DHSgov: "... It's kinda interesting you paid $1.9 million to@Accenture to help you w/ that problem & they've hired <only> 35 agents. Yeah, I'd say there is a pretty big management problem."#NielsenHearingpic.twitter.com/vXCM60pfD1Show this thread
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