Democratic New York Rep. Dan Goldman addressed a mother who lost her daughter to fentanyl during Thursday's House Homeland Security hearing.
Josephine Dunn testified before Congress after losing her daughter Ashley to fentanyl at age 26. hearing The title is “A Voice for the Victims: The Heartbreaking Reality of the Mallorcas Border Crisis''. Goldman told her, before driving her back and forth across the border, that she was not qualified to be a witness because she was being “used.” (Related: Here's how many gang members were caught trying to exploit Biden's border policies)
Goldman told Dunn and another mother who lost her daughter in a border-related incident: “You're here to share your story, but you're not a fact witness in an impeachment inquiry.'' In a sense, I would like to apologize for being used as such.” “And obviously, given your previous experience, you don't have the background to understand what a high crime or misdemeanor is and how it relates. I hope you will.”
“If we had more law enforcement officers at the border and more resources and technology to stop fentanyl from coming into this country, that would help stop fentanyl trafficking and trafficking from coming into this country. “Don't you agree?'' he asked Dan. “Do you agree with that?”
👀Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman tells mother who lost daughter to fentanyl about Mayorkas' impeachment: 'You don't have the qualifications.' pic.twitter.com/88Ador3Axn
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“I disagree with that opinion because the Border Patrol is currently being used to make sandwiches and to test people and allow them into our country. So I disagree with your opinion. ” Dan replied. “I want the Border Patrol to do what they're hired to do. Every Border Patrol agent I've talked to says their hands are tied by this administration and Mr. Mayorkas. “I went to the border, yes?”
Mr. Goldman did not respond to questions.
“Excuse me, I have to ask you a question,” he retorted.
He went on to say that all of the top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials that Congress met with said, “It would be beneficial to provide more resources at the border to stop fentanyl, and that's what President Biden is doing. “That's exactly what happened,” he said. ”
Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered by a suspected MS-13 member in July 2022, said: file a lawsuit paid DHS $100 million to release him to the United States. She also testified at the hearing that DHS and Health and Human Services (HHS) officials should properly check alleged MS-13 members for gang affiliation and vet sponsors prior to release. He claimed that he had failed to do so.
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