{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/watch-rep-goldman-pushes-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-admit-dhs-violating-law", "WATCH: Rep. Goldman Pushes DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to Admit DHS is Violating the Law", "2025-12-11", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "NY", "Daniel S. Goldman", "G000599", "goldman.house.gov", "goldman", "https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Goldman: \u201c...You can\u2019t just decide that you\u2019re not going to follow the law, and asylum is a law, and deport people who have ongoing applications. Unfortunately, that is exactly what\u2019s happening.\u201d\n\nWatch the Video of the Exchange HERE\n\nWashington, DC - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) cross-examined U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem over DHS\u2019s efforts to deport immigrants who are lawfully seeking asylum in the United States. For the past several months, DHS has continuously targeted individuals attending their routine immigration court hearings who are actively pursuing lawful pathways to migrate to the United States.\n\nA rush transcript of Rep. Goldman\u2019s committee remarks are below:\n\nRep. Goldman: Secretary Noem, let\u2019s talk about the law. Do you agree that asylum is a lawful pathway to immigrate to this country, yes or no?\n\nSecretary Noem: There\u2019s an asylum program, yes in place\u2026\n\nRep. Goldman: Alright, so immigrants then, with ongoing asylum applications are legally in this country, correct?\n\nSecretary Noem: Excuse me, I\u2019m sorry, your question was?\n\nRep. Goldman: Immigrants with ongoing asylum applications are legally in this country?\n\nSecretary Noem: There are individuals in this country that have applications, that\u2026\n\nRep. Goldman: And they are legally here because it\u2019s a lawful pathway right?\n\nSecretary Noem: It\u2019s a lawful pathway.\n\nRep. Goldman: Ok, so if your department then deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law, correct?\n\nSecretary Noem: Joe Biden left us with\u2026\n\nRep. Goldman: I\u2019m not asking you about Joe Biden, I\u2019m asking a specific question. If your department deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law, is that correct?\n\nSecretary Noem: It was greatly violated when they allowed\u2026\n\nRep. Goldman: I\u2019m asking you, I\u2019m asking you.\n\nSecretary Noem: \u2026granted asylum applicants\n\nRep. Goldman: Why are you filibustering, why can\u2019t you answer the question? It\u2019s a simple question.\n\nSecretary Noem: Your president and your secretary\u2026\n\nRep. Goldman: If your department deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law, isn\u2019t that correct?\n\nSecretary Noem: The asylum program was broken under the last administration.\n\nRep. Goldman: Mr. Chairman, I will reclaim my time. She's not answering the question, but the obvious answer is that, yes, if you follow a lawful pathway - asylum is lawful pathway - if you have an open asylum case, you are here lawfully. But the problem that we are seeing around the country is that you are not following the law. Don\u2019t tell us to change the law, if you don\u2019t like the asylum system, you change the asylum law, bring it to us, we\u2019ll work with you, I think it needs to be changed. But you can\u2019t just decide that you\u2019re not going to follow the law, and asylum is a law, and deport people who have ongoing applications. Unfortunately, that is exactly what\u2019s happening, it\u2019s happening across the street from my office right in New York City. Numerous, thousands, of people who have come to court appearances, have left them with open asylum applications, have been arrested. And then, they\u2019ve been shipped off, and many deported.\n\nYou can view the full clip here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/watch-rep-goldman-pushes-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-admit-dhs-violating-law"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.557092647999525, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}