During a Thursday national security hearing, Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.) methodically questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over the brutal anti-immigration crackdown her department is carrying out on behalf of President Donald Trump.The Democrat managed to secure a verbal pledge from Noem to, at the very least, take a look at certain individual immigrants’ cases of alleged mistreatment at the hands of federal immigration officers.All three cases came with connections to the U.S. military, and Magaziner was able to contrast the immigrants’ patriotism with Noem’s repeated claims that her department is only deporting “the worst of the worst.”He began his five minutes of questioning by asking Noem how many U.S. military veterans she has deported.She denied having done so.He then introduced Noem to Sae Joon Park, a Purple Heart recipient and green card-holder who took two bullets during his U.S. military service in Panama and appeared at the hearing by Zoom from Korea. Park was forced to leave the U.S. this summer after living in the country for nearly 50 years. “Like many veterans, he struggled with PTSD and substance abuse after his service,” Magaziner said of Park. “He was arrested in the 1990s for some minor drug offenses, nothing serious; he never hurt anyone besides himself. He’s been clean and sober for 14 years.”Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.) holds a tablet connected to a Zoom call with Army veteran and green-card holder Sae Joon Park, who was forced to deport himself to South Korea.Anna Moneymaker via Getty ImagesNext, Magaziner introduced a Gulf War veteran whose wife, an Irish immigrant, has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for the past four months. The veteran, Jim Brown, stood up in the hearing room.Brown’s wife, Donna Hughes-Brown, who had been in the U.S. legally since age 11, had written two bad checks around a decade ago that totaled $80, Magaziner said.(Last month, Brown revealed that he had voted for Trump but regretted that choice, saying, “I was an idiot.”)Magaziner then recognized another veteran in the hearing room, explaining that the man’s father, Narciso Barranco, had been brutalized by immigration agents this summer. Viral video of the incident showed an agent punching Barranco in the head even though Barranco did not appear to be resisting arrest. Barranco raised three sons to be U.S. Marines and had no criminal record, Magaziner said. With each veteran, the Democrat asked Noem to offer thanks for their service.She largely did so, but clarified that she was grateful for people who “follow our laws.”She said she would look at Park and Brown’s individual cases. When Magaziner asked her to consider offering Barranco parole to stay in America rather than be deported, she began to respond with a reminder that immigrants without proper paperwork could choose to exit the country and reenter the correct way. Then Magaziner stepped in.“Madame Secretary, you promised America that you would go after the worst of the worst. But these people are not the worst of the worst: a Purple Heart recipient, a military spouse, the father of three Marines,” he said.He later added, “There are many problems with your leadership, but the biggest problem is this: You don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Go after the bad guys, go after the terrorists, do not go after veterans, Marines, children, United States citizens.”