KRISTI NOEM’S DEPARTURE FROM THE DHS WON’T MEAN AN END TO AGENCY’S VIOLENT TACTICS
“I hope that neither the American public nor our elected officials are distracted by today’s personnel change at the top of DHS, or the internal changes that preceded it,” said Faisal Al-Juburi of Raíces, a non-profit legal services and advocacy organization. “Mass deportation is still central to the Trump administration’s agenda. That has not changed, and it is why we have every reason to believe interior [immigration] enforcement will continue to target people on the basis of race, and regardless of status, throughout our American cities.”
In congressional hearings that preceded Noem’s ouster, it became clear that lawmakers – including Republicans who overarchingly supported Trump’s immigration agenda – had grown weary of Noem’s theatrical approach to her role, especially as a majority of Americans appeared not to be impressed by the Noem’s penchant for pageantry.
“We’re beginning to get the American people to think that deporting people is wrong,” said the retiring senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina at a congressional hearing on Noem’s tenure this week. “It’s the exact opposite. The way you’re going about deporting them is wrong” …
