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Kristi Noem refuses to retract statement calling Minnesotans killed by federal agents ‘domestic terrorists’

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Kristi Noem at a Senate judiciary committee oversight hearing in Washington DC on 3 March. Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock

The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, on Tuesday would not retract her statements calling the two US citizens who were killed by immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis earlier this year “domestic terrorists”, while also claiming that agents do not abide by quotas for arrests.

Appearing before Congress for the first time since the killings, Noem evaded a question by the Senate judiciary committee’s ranking member, Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, about whether she would take back the false accusations about Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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