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Majority of Dems Support Impeachment of Kristi Noem

&NewLine;<p>As the left continues to try to rewrite the narrative regarding ICE operations in Minneapolis and throughout the nation&comma; a delusional Robin Kelly&comma; Democratic Congresswoman from Illinois&comma; formally introduced articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;reign of terror&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;She needs to be held accountable for her actions&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kelly said as she announced the three articles of impeachment &&num;8211&semi; obstruction of Congress&comma; Violation of Public Trust and Self-Dealing &&num;8211&semi; against Noem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Secretary Noem&comma; you have violated your oath of office&comma; and there will be consequences&period; I am watching you&period; Members of Congress are watching you&period; The American people&comma; most importantly&comma; are watching you&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kelly told reporters&period; &&num;8220&semi;And most of all&comma; we are not liking what we&&num;8217&semi;re seeing&period; If you believe impeachment is silly&comma; then you are not taking your job or our Constitution seriously&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Over 70 House Democrats signed on to co-sponsor the articles of impeachment&comma; Kelly confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>DHS responded to the wingnut articles of impeachment by calling them &&num;8220&semi;silly&&num;8221&semi; during a serious time&comma; claiming Kelly is more focused on &&num;8220&semi;showmanship and fundraising clicks than actually cleaning up her crime-ridden Chicago district&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Protests broke out across the country after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement &lpar;ICE&rpar; agent in Minneapolis&period; Noem called Good&&num;8217&semi;s reaction &&num;8220&semi;an act of domestic terrorism&&num;8221&semi; and said ICE agents were carrying out lawful enforcement operations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Trump administration called the officer&&num;8217&semi;s actions &&num;8220&semi;self-defense&&num;8221&semi; and ruled that an investigation is not needed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;From Chicago to Charlotte to Los Angeles to Minneapolis&comma; Secretary Noem is violating the Constitution while ruining—and ending—lives&comma; and separating families&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Rep&period; Kelly said in a statement last week&period; &&num;8220&semi;It’s one thing to be incompetent and dangerous&comma; but it’s impeachable to break the rule of law&period; I told my constituents and Chicagoans that I would fight against Secretary Noem’s agenda&period; This is me fighting back&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Rep&period; Nydia Velazquez&comma; D-N&period;Y&period;&comma; claimed during the news conference that Homeland Security &&num;8220&semi;has been turned into a weapon of political revenge&&num;8221&semi; and thinks it is above the law&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I have represented the people of New York for over 30 years&period; I have seen a lot of presidents&comma; but I have never seen an administration use federal agencies to explicitly punish cities just because they didn&&num;8217&semi;t vote for them&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Velazquez said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Rep&period; Adriano Espaillat said 32 people died in DHS custody in 2025 and four people so far in 2026 while calling the administration a &&num;8220&semi;Trump dictatorship&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>DHS has stood by the agent&&num;8217&semi;s conduct and labeled Good a &&num;8220&semi;domestic terrorist&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Today&comma; ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle&comma; attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism&comma;&&num;8221&semi; DHS wrote on X&period; &&num;8220&semi;An ICE officer&comma; fearing for his life&comma; the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public&comma; fired defensive shots&period; He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>President Donald Trump&comma; Vice President JD Vance and other members of the administration have made statements backing the ICE officer involved in the shooting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;

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