EXCERPT:
NOEM: “Will start when we know we have dealt with the backlog that we have, Kristen, one of the things that nobody’s talked about yet is that Joe Biden left us with a backlog of 1.5 million asylum cases. They allowed so many people to abuse the program that they didn’t even process the paperwork, so people who may be as you would say, could have notably claimed this, they weren’t even getting processed for years and years, because they were allowing it to be abused in such a way. The backlog needs to be cleared up. The individuals who are here in the program need to be vetted under our standards that we are implementing under President Trump to ensure they should be in our country and if they’re not, removed immediately.”
WELKER: “Will you deport people with pending asylum claims, madam secretary?”
NOEM: “We will, if they should be. Absolutely. We are going to go through every single person that has a pending asylum claim, you know one of the requirements of asylum is that you have to come in every single year for a checkup and an interview process, and a re-vetting and that is something that we are going to expedite with anyone who does have that asylum claim today and ensure that they deserve to still be in the country, that they still have the purposes for which they claimed that asylum in place and they are not here being radicalized and perpetuating dangerous criminal activity against Americans.”