Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., tore into the homeland security secretary at a hearing, saying he will hold up Trump's nominees until he gets answers from her department.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., tore into the homeland security secretary at a hearing, saying he will hold up Trump’s nominees until he gets answers from her department.

During a tense public hearing Tuesday, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign over her handling of the deadly Minneapolis immigration operation.

And he blasted her for killing her dog, which she had described in her memoir as “untrainable,” as well as a goat. Tillis, of North Carolina, argued that killing the animals reflected bad judgment and compared it to DHS’ fatal shootings of two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis.

Then he senator threatened to block many of Donald Trump’s nominees until he gets answers to questions he has posed to the administration about Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Charlotte.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I grew up in an extremely rural area. We had a dog that roamed a lot, just like so many dogs in the area (well, except for the weird people that would just tie up their dog outside their house for whatever reason).

    Anyway, local dogs would sometimes get together and try to chase deer. Apparently, one of our neighbors recognized our dog on one of these escapades. Someone he was with was about to shoot our dog for chasing deer and he stopped it. After that, we made a lot more efforts to keep him on our property.

    There was no animal control and people were especially precious about being able to hunt deer, so dogs that took to chasing deer down in groups tended to be at-risk.