Kristi Noem spent the training budget on herself and her friends.
She commissioned nearly a quarter billion dollars in ads routed to a company her spokesperson’s husband set up 11 days before the contract was awarded, then starred in them herself on horseback at Mount Rushmore. While she was doing that, she cut ICE training by 40% and eliminated most of their hands-on evaluation before sending 900 agents into the field. At today’s Senate hearing, Republican Sen. John Kennedy called it “spending porn.” Sen. Thom Tillis called her leadership “a disaster.” Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican, said “mistakes were made.”
It’s not just Congress. A federal judge in New Jersey ordered ICE agents to sign declarations under penalty of perjury after finding 17 violations in three months. In Minnesota, Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz has documented more than 200 violations and is threatening criminal contempt, which could mean jail time for federal officials. He wrote that he knows of no other moment in American history when a court had to threaten contempt “again and again and again” to force the government to follow the law.
Call your representatives today. Demand Kristi Noem’s resignation. If she refuses to go, demand her impeachment.
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