“You have no record…”

New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman lectured a mother who lost her daughter to fentanyl during a House homeland security hearing on Thursday.

Josephine Dunn Lost his daughter Ashley to fentanyl at age 26 and testified before Congress in the a audition titled “Voices for the Victims: The Heartbreaking Reality of the Mayorkas Border Crisis”. Goldman told her she was being “used” and was not qualified to be a witness before going back and forth across the border.

“I want to apologize in a way that you're here, really to share your story, but to be used as a fact witness for an impeachment inquiry,” Goldman told Dunn and another mother who lost his daughter due to problems related to the border. “And obviously given what your experience has been, you don't have the background to understand what a felony and a misdemeanor is and how it relates to that. So I hope you'll handle it well.”

“Would you agree, or not, that it would help stop the trade of fentanyl and the trafficking of fentanyl from coming into this country if we had more law enforcement officers at the border and more resources and technology to stop fentanyl from coming in? ” he asked Dunn. “Are you okay with that?”

Rep. Dan Goldman tells mother who lost daughter to fentanyl: 'You have no record' of talking about Mayorkas' impeachment. pic.twitter.com/88Ador3Axn

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“I don't agree with that, because now the border patrol is being used to make sandwiches and call people and let them into our country, so I don't agree with you,” Dunn responded. “I wish the border patrol could do the job they were hired to do. Every border patrol agent I've talked to has told me that this administration and Mr. Mayorkas have their hands tied. I have been to the border, sir, have you?

Goldman did not answer the question.

“Excuse me, I'm asking the questions,” he retorted.

He went on to say that every senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official interviewed by Congress has said that “it would be helpful to provide more resources at the border to stop the flow of fentanyl coming in, and that's exactly what President Biden has done.”

Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was killed by an alleged MS-13 member in July 2022, is plaintiff the DHS for $100 million to release him to the United States. She too witnessed at the hearing, he claimed that DHS and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials failed to adequately screen the alleged MS-13 member for gang affiliation and to check his sponsor before his release to the country.

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