Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blasted the FBI for leaking sensitive ICE raid information to the press, promising that agents would be prosecuted "to the fullest extent" for doing so.
Noem was furious on Monday in an X post about a Sunday Los Angeles Times article that gave details of a planned "large scale" raid on the city.
"The FBI is so corrupt," Noem wrote. "We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law."
Thousands are protesting ICE and Trump's stepped-up immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, and violence erupted when one 17-year-old protester was stabbed on Friday. He remains in critical condition.
Noem has been all over the U.S. and elsewhere making sure Trump's immigration policies are implemented as ordered.
She went to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba last week to oversee violent criminal detainees being sent there.
"My message to criminal alien murderers, rapists, child predators and gangsters: do not come to this country or we will hunt you down, find you, and lock you up," she wrote.
Critical media sources have nicknamed Noem "ICE Barbie" for her frequent appearances and the way she dresses, but she is not giving them any heed.
"These stupid, sexist criticisms are garbage,"she wrote on social media. "While insecure, insignificant, and idiotic people decide to personally attack me, I’ll just be over here helping President Trump make America safe again."
Messaging from Noem and other Trump officials like border czar Tom Homan has clearly gotten out to some of its intended audience--potential illegal border crossers.
Leaked data from Customs and Border Protection shows that so far in February, an average of 359 illegal immigrants have been caught trying to cross the border.
That is down more than 90% since Trump took over as President.
If numbers remain this low, it could be the lowest numbers in almost 60 years.
That's "almost a lifetime,” executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian told the New York Post.
