In the wake of a horrific attack on ICE agents in Chicago that led to a shooting and injured agents as the Chicago government reportedly issued a stand-down order forbidding city police from getting involved in protecting the agents, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem sounded off on Democrat rhetoric, exposing how it has put ICE lives at risk.
As background, attacks on ICE agents have skyrocketed since the Trump Administration took over, with multiple shootings at ICE facilities taking place as huge bands of rioters attack ICE facilities in cities like Portland. The attack on ICE agents in Chicago is just the latest of such horrific attacks, and was what set off Kristi Noem.
Particularly, Noem alleged that Democrats, in pushing so much vile rhetoric about ICE agents, have given criminals “air cover” to attack ICE. Such is what the DHS Secretary explained when she appeared on Sunday, October 5, during an appearance on on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend.
Beginning, Secretary Noem skewered Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, noting that he is unpopular and arguing that he has failed to properly protect his city’s residents from rampant criminality. She said, “Let’s remember that the mayor has a less than 6% approval rating in Chicago. So the people who live there, less than 6% think he might be doing somewhat of a good job. Overwhelmingly, that man is a failure. He’s a failure for his people and hasn’t stood up for the victims of the crimes that have happened in his city.”
Continuing, she noted that the city’s residents have seemed, in contrast, to broadly support ICE as it carries out its mission and detains criminal illegal aliens. Explaining as much, Noem said, “So we’re going to keep doing our work, every day when we’re there, doing our operations, when I’m there with them. People on the streets are clapping as we do our work. They’re clapping as these officers are arresting these bad criminals.”
Further, Noem noted that the residents have good reason to be happy, as ICE has taken criminals who have long plagued them off the streets, ending the predatory behavior that made Chicago a living hell for many residents. She said, “And out of the 12 that we arrested during the short period of time I was there, six of them had criminal records in their backgrounds that the state had arrested them and just turned them loose on the street again for assault, for weapons, possession, for robbery. Those individuals now are off the streets thanks to President Trump, not thanks to that mayor who was delusional at best.”
That’s when Secretary Noem got to her most important point, which is that Democrats, in pushing their awful rhetoric about ICE, have put the lives of agents at severe risk. She said, “He’s giving them air cover. He’s giving them air cover so they can go out and keep committing crimes. It’s wrong. There should be consequences for that. And for leaders that stand up and knowingly lie about the situation on the ground.”
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Concluding, Noem noted that Brandon Johnson’s city has been horrifically mismanaged to the point of becoming a war zone, and that the mayor is taking the clear side of criminals over his law-abiding residents. She said, “This is a war zone. His city is a war zone, and he’s lying so that criminals can go in there and destroy people’s lives.”
Watch her here:
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