Archiv: booting Kristi Noem


06.03.2026 - 10:06 [ Daily Beast ]

DHS Insiders Spill What Really Got ICE Barbie Fired

The axe fell on the 54-year-old Homeland Security secretary almost immediately after her humiliating performance on Capitol Hill. Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. They were her first congressional appearances since federal agents under her command killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, both 37, during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis in January.

Already facing backlash for Good’s killing when Pretti was shot dead just a few days later, Noem sparked outrage by falsely describing Pretti as a domestic terrorist—and then privately trying to pin the blame for the fiasco on White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

“She was blaming Miller for a lot. No way Trump lets her stay after that,” the DHS insider said.

06.03.2026 - 09:45 [ Tagesschau.de ]

US-Heimatschutzministerin entlassen: Umstrittener Werbefilm war offenbar ein Fehler zu viel

Das politische Genick brach Noem eine Anhörung vorgestern im Senat. Es ging um eine TV-Werbekampagne für die Arbeit ihres Ministeriums, bei der vor allem Noem zu sehen war, auf einem Pferd, zu Füßen des Mount Rushmore. Kostenpunkt der Werbung: 220 Millionen Dollar.

06.03.2026 - 09:30 [ Associated Press ]

Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after mounting criticism over her leadership

Noem has faced waves of criticism as she’s overseen Trump’s immigration crackdown, especially since the shooting deaths of the two protesters in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration enforcement officers. In the immediate aftermath of the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Noem portrayed both of them as aggressors, contradicting widely viewed videos and descriptions of their deaths from bystanders. She declined to apologize for her description over two days of Congressional testimony.

The former South Dakota governor was also criticized over the way her department has spent billions of dollars allocated to it by Congress.

06.03.2026 - 09:16 [ New York Magazine ]

Top Goon Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle. Who really runs DHS?

(September 22, 2025)

On paper, Noem sits at the top of this empire. In practice, power over immigration policy is fractured, shaped by competing factions, starting with deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who has vowed in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination to destroy nameless forces that have conspired against the right — the long arm of law enforcement, he warned them, “will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power, and, if you’ve broken the law, to take away your freedom.” Noem will be among those at the forefront of any such effort, surrounded by a tight inner circle that can be difficult to penetrate and often impossible to work with. “The culture over there is terrible,” the administration official told me. “People are scared shitless of Corey.”

06.03.2026 - 09:08 [ bpdaily.com ]

“Worst-Kept Secret In D.C.”: Trump Camp Weighs In On Kristi ‘ICE Barbie’ Noem Affair Claims

(September 24, 2025)

Noem, who is married, has been dogged with affair rumors over the years, but she and alleged lover Corey Lewandowski, who is also married, have denied the claims.

A new report in the New York Magazine has detailed Noem’s alleged romantic relationship with Lewandowski, with inside sources telling the outlet it is D.C.’s worst-kept secret.

10.02.2026 - 18:08 [ New York Times ]

We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers. You Can’t Wish Away the Fourth Amendment.

(February 2, 2026)

A warrant signed by a judge who is independent of the executive branch is a constitutional safeguard that separates legitimate law enforcement from arbitrary government power. This bedrock principle applies with equal — if not greater — force when the government is merely enforcing a civil immigration order.

Today the Department of Homeland Security seeks to justify forcible home entries on the basis of administrative warrants — warrants issued by the executive, not the judicial branch.

10.02.2026 - 17:53 [ Texas Public Radio ]

DHS defends ICE actions after San Antonio home arrest attempt sparks backlash

(February 8, 2026)

The agency did not specify what type of warrant officers were carrying. Judicial warrants are approved by judges, while administrative warrants are issued by immigration authorities; civil rights advocates note that administrative warrants generally do not permit officers to enter a home without consent or emergency conditions.

10.02.2026 - 14:53 [ MS.now ]

Democrats unify behind a hardball strategy on DHS funding

And even with a DHS shutdown on the horizon — or what’s supposed to be a shutdown, anyway — Democrats are holding the line.

“Our position has been clear: Dramatic changes are needed at the Department of Homeland Security before a DHS funding bill moves forward,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said Monday when asked if he’d support a short-term funding patch for DHS. “Period. Full stop.”

01.02.2026 - 19:02 [ BerkeleySide.org ]

Berkeley businesses close, students protest as city joins ‘ICE Out’ national strike

(January 30, 2026)

Cheese Board Collective, Nabolom Bakery and the climbing gym Berkeley Ironworks were among the businesses closed in solidarity with the “no work, no school, no shopping” protest.

01.02.2026 - 17:39 [ New York Times ]

Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE

In the past two months, federal immigration agents have arrested thousands in the Twin Cities, detaining citizens, asylum-seekers, refugees and the undocumented. They have killed two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti. And they have stopped people seemingly at random, asking for identification or simply demanding: “Where were you born?”

Now, many people here are asking a question that is a novel one in America: Is it safe to leave home without proof of citizenship? Has the United States turned into a show-me-your-papers nation?

For many Minnesotans, the answer has been an unequivocal yes.

01.02.2026 - 17:35 [ CNN ]

They were asylum seekers and refugees in Minnesota. Still, ICE detained and flew them to Texas to face deportation

The refugees come from countries such as Somalia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria, El Salvador, Venezuela and Russia, Ball Cooper said. They entered the US legally but cannot apply for permanent status until a year after they’ve been admitted to the country, as required under US law. Ball Cooper and other advocates have been in touch with some of those refugees, who they say have not been charged with crimes or immigration violations that would leave them open to removal proceedings.

01.02.2026 - 17:01 [ ABC News ]

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital

The explanation from ICE is an example of recent run-ins between immigration officers and health care workers that have contributed to mounting friction at Minneapolis hospitals. Workers at the Hennepin County facility say ICE officers have restrained patients in defiance of hospital rules and stayed at their sides for days. The agents have also lingered around the campus and pressed people for proof of citizenship.

01.02.2026 - 16:55 [ Associated Press ]

Takeaways from AP report on ICE claims that immigrant shattered his skull running into wall

According to his lawyers, Castañeda Mondragón entered the U.S. in 2022 with valid immigration documents. Minnesota incorporation filings show he founded a company called Castaneda Construction the following year with an address listed in St. Paul. He appears to have no criminal record.

His lawyers told a court that Castañeda Mondragón was racially profiled during the crackdown, and that officers determined only after his arrest that he had overstayed his visa.

“He was a brown-skinned, Latino Spanish speaker at a location immigration agents arbitrarily decided to target,” his lawyers wrote in a petition seeking his release from ICE custody.

01.02.2026 - 16:43 [ New York Times ]

The Interview – ‘A Terrifying Line Is Being Crossed’: Mayor Jacob Frey on the Turmoil in Minneapolis

We’ve got 600 police officers. They have between 3,000 and 4,000 federal agents. They are saying, and I’m hopeful that they are being honest and candid, that those numbers will be significantly drawn down. They are saying that the way that ICE and Border Patrol have been conducting themselves will change dramatically. So not these marauding gangs of guys just walking down the street indiscriminately picking people up, but having more of a targeted operation. This is not about ICE doing regular ICE stuff. What we have seen feels like an invasion.

01.02.2026 - 16:36 [ Common Dreams ]

Leaked DHS Memo Reveals ICE Claiming Expansive New Warrantless Arrest Powers

Stanford University political scientist Tom Clark questioned the validity of the memo, which appears to directly conflict with the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, which requires search warrants as a protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures.”

“So, here’s how the law works,” he wrote. “People on whom it imposes constraints don’t get to just write themselves a memo saying they don’t have to follow the law. Maybe I’ll write myself a memo saying that I don’t have to pay my taxes this year.”

01.02.2026 - 16:14 [ Axios ]

Mike Johnson told not to count on Dems‘ votes to end shutdown

Democrats are hesitant to vote for the package because it contains a two-week stopgap funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that lacks reform measures for ICE or Customs and Border Protection.

Senate Democrats were split almost evenly on the measure in a Friday night vote, with the 23 Democrats who voted for it facing swift backlash from progressive groups who accused them of essentially voting to fund ICE.

31.01.2026 - 19:49 [ FiftyFifty.one ]

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31.01.2026 - 19:47 [ RSN.org ]

More Than 300 Anti-ICE Protests Planned Across US This Weekend

More than 300 demonstrations are expected to take place across all 50 states and Washington DC, today, in what organizers are calling “ICE Out of Everywhere”.

Organizers, led by the national grassroots organization 50501, say today’s protests are a response to a series of recent deaths involving federal immigration agents, including the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month, the homicide of Geraldo Campos in an immigration detention facility in Texas and the shooting of Keith Porter Jr by an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Los Angeles.

30.01.2026 - 18:30 [ CNN ]

Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort taken into custody after Minnesota church protest

(updated 57 minutes ago)

Lemon was in L.A. to cover the Grammy Awards and was arrested after 11 p.m. local time in a hotel lobby in Beverly Hills.

He was arrested by a team of agents from Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the operation. His case is being led by HSI.

“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” Lemon’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement Friday morning. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.”

30.01.2026 - 18:25 [ New York Times ]

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

The former CNN anchor Don Lemon and three other people have been arrested on charges that they violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., this month, lawyers and Justice Department officials said on Friday, reviving a case that was rejected last week by a magistrate judge.

The arrests of Mr. Lemon, a second journalist and two protesters came a little more than a week after three other demonstrators who took part in the action at the Cities Church on Jan. 18 were taken into custody.

29.01.2026 - 19:22 [ Common Dreams ]

US Senate, Do the Right Thing and Refuse to Fund ICE

More Americans now support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, than keeping it.

28.01.2026 - 06:07 [ People.com ]

Alex Pretti‘s Sister Slams ‚Disgusting Lies‘ About Her Brother After Fatal Shooting: ‚Absolutely Gut-Wrenching‘

– The sister of Alex Pretti said it‘s been „gut-wrenching“ to hear „disgusting lies“ spread about her brother, as she paid tribute to him after he was fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis

– Micayla Pretti issued a statement on Monday, Jan. 26, calling her late brother a hero, according to the Associated Press. “All Alex ever wanted was to help someone — anyone,” she said, per the news agency. “Even in his very last moments on this earth, he was simply trying to do just that.”

– Without going into too much detail, Micayla criticized the misinformation being spread about her brother, insisting, “When does this end? How many more innocent lives must be lost before we say enough?“ per the AP

28.01.2026 - 05:08 [ CNN ]

Man sprays unknown substance at Rep. Ilhan Omar during town hall

A man attacked Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar tonight, spraying an unknown substance with a strong odor toward her, just seconds after the Democratic congresswoman called for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign and urged the abolishment of ICE.

Audience members of the town hall meeting with local and state officials started to clap as she made her remarks. Then the man rushed her podium, yelling at the congresswoman and appearing to spray the substance through a syringe at her.

28.01.2026 - 05:01 [ Fox News ]

Politics Senate GOP critics say Noem ‘needs to go’ amid fallout from Minneapolis shootings

A pair of Senate Republicans are demanding that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem lose her job in the wake of a pair of fatal shootings in the midst of the agency‘s immigration operations in Minnesota.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., are no strangers to being critical of the Trump administration, and have again broken from their party in calling for Noem to either step aside or be fired by President Donald Trump.

28.01.2026 - 04:54 [ Politico.com ]

Curtis, Utah GOP senator, says Noem ‘weakened confidence’ in Minnesota shooting investigation

Sen. John Curtis broke with the Trump administration’s response to the killing of a Minneapolis man by a federal immigration officer, and said Monday he supports bringing in administration officials to testify before Congress over the investigation.

The Utah Republican said in a social media post that he didn’t agree with Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s initial assessment of the incident surrounding Pretti’s death on Saturday, which he said “weakened confidence” in the federal government’s handling of the case.

28.01.2026 - 04:48 [ CBS News ]

Tillis becomes first GOP senator to call for „incompetent“ Noem to step down

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said Tuesday he has lost all confidence in „incompetent“ Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who has faced intense scrutiny over a fatal shooting by immigration agents over the weekend.

„I think my position is pretty unambiguous,“ Tillis told reporters. „I think she should go.“

27.01.2026 - 18:10 [ Congressman John Fetterman ]

Fetterman Calls on President Trump to Fire DHS Secretary Noem

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, following the tragedies in Minnesota and the incompetence of the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Noem, U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) released the following statement:

“President Trump: I make a direct appeal to immediately fire Secretary Noem.

“Americans have died.

“She is betraying DHS’s core mission and trashing your border security legacy.

“DO NOT make the mistake President Biden made for not firing a grossly incompetent DHS Secretary.”