Travis Hawkins

Goldman: “If your department then deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application, you are violating the law, correct?” Noem: “Joe Biden left us…” Goldman: “I’m not asking about Joe Biden…If your department deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application. You are violating the law. Is that correct?” Noem: “It was greatly violated when they allowed 1.5 million people to come in.” Goldman: “Why are you filibustering? Why can't you answer the question?” Noem: “Your president and your secretary did not follow the law.” Goldman: “If your department deports anyone with an ongoing asylum application. You are violating the law. Isn't that correct?” Noem: “The asylum system was broken under the last administration.” Goldman: “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 a 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.”