{"id":1809330,"date":"2026-03-05T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1809330"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:55:32","slug":"kristi-noem-to-be-replaced-as-dhs-secretary-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1809330","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem to be replaced as DHS secretary, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kristi Noem was reasigned to “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” in\u00a0a new security initiative put forth by Trump.Image: Olivier Douliery\/abaca\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),\u00a0Kristi Noem, would be replaced. Her removal comes\u00a0two days after Noem appeared in hearing\u00a0the\u00a0US Congress, where she was grilled by both\u00a0GOP members as well as Democrats.<\/p>\n

DHS is the\u00a0third largest department in the US government and its chief responsibility for carrying out Trump\u2019s hard-line immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

Noem is the first Cabinet member to be removed\u00a0since Trump’s second term began. Her\u00a0tenure overseeing immigration enforcement tactics was widely criticized and in the last days, she was accused of allegedly misapropriating DHS funds.<\/p>\n

In his announcement, Trump said Noem will now serve as a “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,”\u00a0a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

US\u00a0\u200bSenator \u200cfrom Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, is expected to\u00a0\u200cbecome the new\u00a0Secretary of \u200bHomeland Security \u2060at \u200bthe \u200bend of \u200bthe \u200cmonth.<\/p>\n

Ad campaign controversy<\/h2>\n

The former governor of South Dakota, Noem was a staunch supporter of Trump who had described the situation at the US-Mexico southern border as a “war zone,” prior to her appointment.<\/p>\n

As DHS Secretary, Noem had a very public-facing role, at times shaperoning\u00a0agents on immigration raids as cameras recorded. Noem\u00a0does not have a law enforcement background.<\/p>\n

During a visit to the famous CECOT prison in\u00a0El Salvador, where her department sent people it accused of being gang members, she posed with the shirtless inmates, in an attempt to serve as warning to undocumented immigrants in the US.<\/p>\n

It was one of the ways in which Noem advertised the departments’ work, which Trump critics called out as self-promotion earning her the nickname “ICE Barbie.”<\/p>\n

The reputation seems to have caught up with Noem. When a Republican senator noted that a multimillion dollar advertising\u00a0campaign seemed more for self-promotion than effective enforcement,\u00a0Noem said\u00a0 it had been approved by Trump. But Trump publicly denied her claim just days before her dismissal.<\/p>\n

Mounting pressure to resign<\/h2>\n

Democrats had long called for Noem to resign for what they saw as harsh and inhumane handling of immigration enforcement. Noem oversaw the\u00a0revoking temporary protected status from citizens of Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and several other countries, claiming that conditions in those countries were safe for people to return to.<\/p>\n

Noem defended the ICE\u00a0the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis, going as far as calling the victims “domestic terrorists.”<\/p>\n

Edited by: Wesley Dockery<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),\u00a0Kristi Noem, would be replaced. Her removal comes\u00a0two days after Noem appeared in hearing\u00a0the\u00a0US Congress, where she was grilled by both\u00a0GOP members as well as Democrats.<\/p>\n

DHS is the\u00a0third largest department in the US government and its chief responsibility for carrying out Trump\u2019s hard-line immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

Noem is the first Cabinet member to be removed\u00a0since Trump’s second term began. Her\u00a0tenure overseeing immigration enforcement tactics was widely criticized and in the last days, she was accused of allegedly misapropriating DHS funds.<\/p>\n

In his announcement, Trump said Noem will now serve as a “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,”\u00a0a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

US\u00a0\u200bSenator \u200cfrom Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, is expected to\u00a0\u200cbecome the new\u00a0Secretary of \u200bHomeland Security \u2060at \u200bthe \u200bend of \u200bthe \u200cmonth.<\/p>\n

Ad campaign controversy<\/h2>\n

The former governor of South Dakota, Noem was a staunch supporter of Trump who had described the situation at the US-Mexico southern border as a “war zone,” prior to her appointment.<\/p>\n

As DHS Secretary, Noem had a very public-facing role, at times shaperoning\u00a0agents on immigration raids as cameras recorded. Noem\u00a0does not have a law enforcement background.<\/p>\n

During a visit to the famous CECOT prison in\u00a0El Salvador, where her department sent people it accused of being gang members, she posed with the shirtless inmates, in an attempt to serve as warning to undocumented immigrants in the US.<\/p>\n

It was one of the ways in which Noem advertised the departments’ work, which Trump critics called out as self-promotion earning her the nickname “ICE Barbie.”<\/p>\n

The reputation seems to have caught up with Noem. When a Republican senator noted that a multimillion dollar advertising\u00a0campaign seemed more for self-promotion than effective enforcement,\u00a0Noem said\u00a0 it had been approved by Trump. But Trump publicly denied her claim just days before her dismissal.<\/p>\n

Mounting pressure to resign<\/h2>\n

Democrats had long called for Noem to resign for what they saw as harsh and inhumane handling of immigration enforcement. Noem oversaw the\u00a0revoking temporary protected status from citizens of Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and several other countries, claiming that conditions in those countries were safe for people to return to.<\/p>\n

Noem defended the ICE\u00a0the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis, going as far as calling the victims “domestic terrorists.”<\/p>\n

Edited by: Wesley Dockery<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),\u00a0Kristi Noem, would be replaced. Her removal comes\u00a0two days after Noem appeared in hearing\u00a0the\u00a0US Congress, where she was grilled by both\u00a0GOP members as well as Democrats.<\/p>\n

DHS is the\u00a0third largest department in the US government and its chief responsibility for carrying out Trump\u2019s hard-line immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

Noem is the first Cabinet member to be removed\u00a0since Trump’s second term began. Her\u00a0tenure overseeing immigration enforcement tactics was widely criticized and in the last days, she was accused of allegedly misapropriating DHS funds.<\/p>\n

In his announcement, Trump said Noem will now serve as a “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,”\u00a0a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

US\u00a0\u200bSenator \u200cfrom Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, is expected to\u00a0\u200cbecome the new\u00a0Secretary of \u200bHomeland Security \u2060at \u200bthe \u200bend of \u200bthe \u200cmonth.<\/p>\n

The former governor of South Dakota, Noem was a staunch supporter of Trump who had described the situation at the US-Mexico southern border as a “war zone,” prior to her appointment.<\/p>\n

As DHS Secretary, Noem had a very public-facing role, at times shaperoning\u00a0agents on immigration raids as cameras recorded. Noem\u00a0does not have a law enforcement background.<\/p>\n

During a visit to the famous CECOT prison in\u00a0El Salvador, where her department sent people it accused of being gang members, she posed with the shirtless inmates, in an attempt to serve as warning to undocumented immigrants in the US.<\/p>\n

It was one of the ways in which Noem advertised the departments’ work, which Trump critics called out as self-promotion earning her the nickname “ICE Barbie.”<\/p>\n

The reputation seems to have caught up with Noem. When a Republican senator noted that a multimillion dollar advertising\u00a0campaign seemed more for self-promotion than effective enforcement,\u00a0Noem said\u00a0 it had been approved by Trump. But Trump publicly denied her claim just days before her dismissal.<\/p>\n

Democrats had long called for Noem to resign for what they saw as harsh and inhumane handling of immigration enforcement. Noem oversaw the\u00a0revoking temporary protected status from citizens of Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and several other countries, claiming that conditions in those countries were safe for people to return to.<\/p>\n

Noem defended the ICE\u00a0the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis, going as far as calling the victims “domestic terrorists.”<\/p>\n

Edited by: Wesley Dockery<\/em><\/p>\n

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