During a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was forced to justify her department’s pressure for a military veteran to leave the country as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant push.

When asked by Democratic Rep. Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island how many veterans her department has deported Noem denied it all.

“We have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans,” she responded.

In response, Magaziner held up a tablet featuring a live Zoom call with Sae Joon Park, a former resident of Honolulu, Hawaii. Magaziner explained that Park is a military veteran who was shot twice while serving in Panama in 1989 and that, after suffering from PTSD, Park was arrested for nonviolent minor drug offenses.

“He is a combat vet

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