WASHINGTON – Lockstep Trump loyalist Kristi Noem, his secretary for homeland security, blamed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in for a growing number of assaults on her ICDE deportation agents. Noem called it sickening that Walz had compared ICE agents to the German secret police of the World War II era – the Gestapo. Walz used Getsaopo as metaphot in a commencement address last week. Said Noem: “Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults.” Noem offered no substantiation of her 413% claim. In a news release Noem’s agency repeated the Trump mantra: “Our message is clear: Do not come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you, and you will never return.” The mantra sidestepped the Walz point about ICE excesses – ambushing and arresting persons in the country legally and “disappearing” them to dungeons in other countries.
Noem. Former South Dakota governor. Now in Trump cabinet and running the U.S. Homeland Security Department. Lacks credentials in foreign threats, the law, deportation policy, law enforcement.