By Nicole Acevedo Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not apologize for or retract administration statements falsely calling two U.S. citizens domestic terrorists shortly after they were killed by immigration agents in Minnesota in January. In her first appearance before Congress since the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7 and Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, Noem repeatedly defended the Trump administration’s immigration policies and tactics during a tense, almost four-hour Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the committee’s ranking member, pressed Noem about why Good and Pretti were falsely labeled as domestic terrorists following their killings. Noem expressed her condolences to their
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