Tag Archives: Kristi Noem

Reuters reports: The Trump administration plans to slash terrorism prevention funding for New York City, according to a grant notice posted just days after a gunman killed four people inside a Manhattan skyscraper. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a grant notice that the United States’ largest city would receive $64 million less this year from its urban area …

Variety reports: In the second episode of “South Park” Season 27, United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem leads ICE in a raid on the local production of “Dora the Explorer Live!” After losing his job as counselor of South Park Elementary, Mr. Mackey is out of options to make his monthly “nut,” which adds up to $8,000 a …

Just in via press release: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem today announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will waive age limits for new applicants so even more patriots will qualify to join ICE in its mission to arrest murderers, pedophiles, gang members, rapists, and other criminal illegal aliens from America’s streets. All ICE law enforcement recruits …

Indianapolis’s NBC affiliate reports: DHS confirmed on Tuesday a new partnership with Indiana government to expand detention space for people arrested by ICE. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the initiative nicknamed “Speedway Slammer” will use 1,000 beds at the Miami Correctional Center near the Miami County town of Bunker Hill, Indiana. That’s about a 75-minute drive north of Indianapolis …

Indianapolis’s Fox affiliate reports: The next Alligator Alcatraz is coming to Indiana. Gov. Mike Braun announced that the state will work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house illegal immigrants at the Miami Correctional Facility in Bunker Hill, north of Kokomo. Kristi Noem, director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Tuesday that up to 1,000 beds will …

CBS News reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says “Alligator Alcatraz” will serve as a model for state-run migrant detention centers, and she told CBS News in an interview that she hopes to launch a handful of similar detention centers in multiple airports and jails across the country, in the coming months. Potential sites are already under consideration in Arizona, …

The Washington Post reports: The lawmakers say in the complaint that they each “attempted to obtain information about conditions at a DHS [Department of Homeland Security] facility used to detain or otherwise house noncitizens … by visiting a facility in person, or by giving DHS notice of imminent plans to do so, for the purpose of conducting realtime oversight of …

The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration is promoting one way to get away from an abusive ex: report them to immigration enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security jumped on a viral social media post by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. “We recently got a tip from someone whose abusive ex overstayed a tourism visa. He is now cued up …

CNN reports: The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday. Ken Pagurek’s departure comes less than three weeks after a delayed FEMA response to catastrophic flooding in central Texas caused by bureaucratic hurdles put in place by the Department …

The Wall Street Journal reports: With an overnight tripling of its annual budget and intensifying pressure to increase deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racing to expand its detention space with temporary tentlike structures, despite safety warnings. Trump administration officials have identified limited detention space as one of the major chokepoints preventing them from stepping up deportations as quickly …

The Hill reports: Tourists, international students and business travelers may be required to pay a $250 fee when visiting the United States on a non-immigrant visa. No formal start date has been announced to begin the collection of the “visa integrity fee.” Starting in 2026, the $250 price could increase to accommodate inflation. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be …

REPORTER: “ICE operations are taking place predominately in Latino communities-” ICE BARBIE: “I wouldn’t say that’s true, I would say that the media has highlighted operations like that, but we have operations ongoing throughout the country every single day in communities everywhere, so I would not say that anyone could show that they’re highlighted in Hispanic communities. That is absolutely …

NBC News reports: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Thursday that the TSA will open security lanes dedicated to families and military service members. TSA will also begin offering Gold Star families TSA pre-check enrollment free of charge, she said. “Families on the Fly” will create dedicated security lines for families with small children and give families a …

From the Houston Chronicle editorial board: Trump’s FEMA director failed to make any public appearances, statements or social media postings immediately following the deadly flood. (He finally showed up a week later.) This is the sort of urgency Texans can expect from a man who joked that he didn’t know there was a hurricane season. Judging by recent reporting on …

The New York Post reports: The days of frantically chugging drinks at airport security gates may soon be over. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggested Wednesday that she is pushing for the TSA to ease up on its liquids, aerosols, and gels rule now that the airport security agency has ditched its dreaded shoes-off policy. “The day I …

NBC News reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that President Donald Trump wants FEMA “remade” rather than dismantled entirely. “I think the president recognizes that FEMA should not exist the way that it always has been. It needs to be redeployed in a new way, and that’s what we did during this response,” Noem said in an interview …

CNN reports: As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and life-saving resources, like they have in countless past disasters. But almost instantly, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN. As CNN has previously reported, …

Politico reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday suggested the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to the 2023 Lahaina wildfires was so poor that one in six survivors had to trade sexual favors in exchange for basic supplies — a reference to a report on female Filipino fire survivors that one of the authors says is a “gross manipulation” …

The Meidas Touch reports: Homeland Security Secretary and former Republican Governor Kristi Noem spent the day pushing her department’s assistance in rescue operations in Texas following severe flooding resulting in several deaths. Noem took to Instagram to ask her followers which portrait should become her official Governor’s portrait to hang in the South Dakota State Capitol. She posted three images, …

The Washington Post reports: A federal court on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from cutting short the temporary protected status designation for Haiti, days after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem announced the designation preventing some Haitian immigrants from being deported would end in September. New York Eastern District Judge Brian M. Cogan, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that …