Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended a video she took while touring a mega prison in El Salvador last week, arguing that it was an image people needed to see for transparency—and to scare those in the country illegally.
She filmed the promo—during which she insisted that the facility was part of the Trump adminstration’s “toolkit” for dealing with undocumented immigrants—at the country’s infamous Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
“Yes, people need to see that image,” Noem said during an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News Monday, agreeing that images she posted last week of her standing in front of cells full of prisons were sending a message. “They need to see that the United States is going to use every tool that we have to make our communities safer. That that is a consequence of someone who is a terrorist.”
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