Kristi Noem has been left utterly humiliated as her hard-charging ICE agents were given new rules last night to ignore ‘agitators’ and only arrest ‘criminal’ migrants as part of Trump’s new deportation agenda.
Noem is also retreating from an ICE immigration crackdown in Maine as bipartisan backlash grows following the fatal shootings of two US citizens in Minnesota.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Thursday that Noem had agreed to pull ICE out of Maine following complaints that the agency had arrested legal immigrants.
‘While the Department of Homeland Security does not confirm law enforcement operations, I can report that Secretary Noem has informed me that ICE has ended its enhanced activities in the State of Maine,’ Collins wrote on X.
New guidance for ICE operations in Minnesota also direct agents only to target immigrants who have criminal charges or convictions.
The new constraints on ICE mark a complete departure from the broad immigration enforcement tactics that have seen two protesters shot dead this month.
‘DO NOT COMMUNICATE OR ENGAGE WITH AGITATORS,’ read an email to ICE agents in the Twin Cities. ‘It serves no purpose other than inflaming the situation. No one is going to convince the other. The only communication should be the officers issuing commands.’
An administration official responded to new guidance by stating, ‘There are ongoing conversations on how to most effectively conduct operations in Minnesota. No guidance should be considered final until it is officially issued.’
The Daily Mail has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
Earlier this week, Donald Trump said his administration would ‘de-escalate’ tensions in Minnesota following the fatal shootings of Reene Good, a mother of three children, and Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse.
Trump appointed White House border czar Tom Homan to take command of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Homan is a longtime rival of Noem and her rumored lover, Corey Lewandowski.
