Agency heads stand by immigration enforcement efforts

(The Center Square) – Federal immigration enforcement agency heads defended their leadership and touted agency accomplishments under the Trump administration, while congressional Republicans and Democrats painted very different pictures of those efforts.

On Tuesday, the House Committee on Homeland Security held its first hearing since the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE officers in Minneapolis, Minn., but agency heads also declined to answer questions about their deaths.

Committee Chairman Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., clarified before questioning began that ongoing investigations limited what agency heads could share. He said the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice were all conducting investigations, but he obtained commitments from the directors of ICE and Customs and Border Protection that they would provide the investigations’ findings to the committee once they were complete.

“We are fully committed to giving you the full and unabridged investigat...