Michael Cohen - ICE Melts Under Noem's Shadow

Support for ICE is melting, faster than Kristi Noem can bolt from a hearing room in heels she clearly didn’t plan to stand in for long. And that’s saying something, because if this week’s Capitol Hill performance proved anything, it’s that the Secretary of Homeland Security can flee accountability with the grace and determination of someone escaping a bad blind date.

The hearing was supposed to be about national security threats. Instead, it became a public colonoscopy of Noem’s leadership, her version of “truth,” and the administration’s increasingly toxic mass-deportation crusade. Rep. Bennie Thompson opened the festivities by politely asking her to do the country a favor and resign, his tone carrying that special exhaustion you only hear from people who’ve survived multiple Trump-era train wrecks and still show up for work. “Do a real service to your country and just resign.” If he’d added “please,” the whole room might’ve given him a standing ovation.

Protesters yelled for ICE to “stop terrorizing our communities,” because apparently someone still believes in plain language, before being shuffled out. Noem, serenely detached, sat there like she was waiting for a dentist appointment and not the political roasting she was absolutely about to receive.

What followed was the usual split screen: Democrats demanding accountability for the human carnage left behind by ICE’s conveyor-belt enforcement machine, and Republicans applauding Noem as if she’d just given her life to save a busload of children and puppies. But under all the theatrics, one reality pulsed like a siren: support for ICE isn’t eroding. It’s liquefying.

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