The rumors that Kristi Noem is about to get fired won’t go away, and it’s no wonder. The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to be the face of Donald Trump’s mass deportations, which he said would bring “law and order.” Instead, everywhere she goes, the former South Dakota governor brings chaos.
The havoc Noem brings is most obvious when it comes to her deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to blue cities as a paramilitary force rather than a law enforcement agency. The secretary has worked to make herself the face of these invasions, which have invariably led to pandemonium. In recent weeks, America has watched as agents have tear gassed civilians, made race-based arrests that have scooped up citizens and even small children, and sent two non-violent citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, to their graves.
