Under Noem’s leadership, the Department of Homeland Security has encouraged racial profiling and the dehumanization of our neighbors. We have seen due process trampled, families terrorized and separated, and court rulings ignored. DHS and ICE are participating in gross abuses of power, and their unlawful acts are only continuing to grow bolder.
Even more disturbing, we’ve watched elected officials, judges, and students targeted and arrested on charges so thin they collapse under scrutiny—manufactured by right-wing extremists to justify intimidation and silence dissent. This is what happens when an agency meant to protect the public is weaponsized for political ends. This is what happens when authoritarian leaders are given free reign to weaponize federal agencies for political ends.
