DHS boss Kirstjen Nielsen has 'fear' for democracy over Congress efforts to block wall emergency

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said her agency's job is to enforce the law and rebuked Congress for the resolution targeting President Trump's border emergency declaration.

"I really fear for our democracy when the body who creates the laws is telling the body who enforces the law, 'Just don't enforce the law,'" Nielsen told "Fox and Friends" in an interview that aired Thursday. "If they don't like the law, they should change it."

Nielsen's comments came ahead of the Senate approving a House-passed resolution Thursday afternoon stopping Trump's national emergency declaration that redirects billions of dollars in funds for the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump has already communicated his intent to veto the resolution, which would be the first veto of his presidency.

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