Kristi Noem had a surprising response to this shocking video
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem knew she had questions to answer.
But Noem pulled off something that put Democrats on the defensive.
And Kristi Noem had a surprising response to this shocking video.
The Trump administration signed a deal with El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele to imprison members of the illegal alien terrorist gangs Tren de Aragua and MS-13.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem toured the prison with Bukele and filmed a video standing in front of a cell full of shirtless criminals warning criminal illegal aliens that this is the fate that awaited them if they snuck into the United States.
I toured the CECOT, El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.
President Trump and I have a clear message to criminal illegal aliens: LEAVE NOW.
If you do not leave, we will hunt you down, arrest you, and you could end up in this El Salvadorian prison. pic.twitter.com/OItDqNsFxM
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) March 26, 2025
Democrats wailed that Noem’s video message reminded them of Nazi Germany.
Noem responded to the critics on the Left in an interview on Fox News.
“My task as Homeland Security secretary is to secure the homeland of the United States of America. So I have jurisdiction over every person that comes in and out of this country, every product that comes in and out of this country, and everything that transpires over the internet. Talking to these presidents of these three countries was very productive,” Noem began.
Noem said that this visual of illegal alien criminals locked up in prison was a visual anyone thinking of sneaking into America needed to see.
“People need to see that image. They need to see that the United States is going to use every tool that we have to make our communities safer. That is a consequence of someone who is a terrorist. The president has declared Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as terrorist organizations. And the president of El Salvador has as well. The only people allowed in that prison are terrorists,” Noem added.
Noem also said President Trump promised the most transparent administration in history and she wanted to do her part to show the American people how seriously President Trump took the mission of mass deportations.
“To tour that and to look at that was giving the American people the transparency that they want out of their government. They were able to see exactly where we’re sending these people who have murdered and raped Americans, that have decimated communities,” Noem continued.
Noem said she wanted to be completely transparent about the seriousness of the consequences of illegal alien terrorists entering America.
“There’s going to be consequences for individuals who continue to do that. My conversation with that president was ‘Will you take more of these terrorists?’ And he said ‘Absolutely we will. We will take the worst of the worst and make sure that they’re facing consequences for what they’ve done to your country,’” Noem concluded.
The optics of this fight are terrible for Democrats.
Leftists are now opposing deporting members of terrorist illegal alien gangs.
Any day where the two parties are debating immigration is a good day for President Trump.
Republicans would be thrilled if every day until the 2028 election is focused on immigration and President Trump following through on his promised mass deportations.
