Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal told Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary nominee and Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to “put aside” concerns about the Biden administration losing track of migrant children during questioning about so-called family separation at her Friday confirmation hearing.
Blumenthal asked the nominee if she is willing to support efforts that help reunite migrant children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, leading Noem to dispute the accusations that President-elect Donald Trump enacted a family separation policy during his first term. The nominee said that she is “alarmed” by the “over 300,000 children” who went missing under the Biden administration.