References in a US Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive” were removed Thursday, and a US senator said she was lifting the hold she had placed on a nomination for the service’s top job. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees the Coast Guard, said on social media that the latest changes … Read more
President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering US Citizenship and Immigration Services to … Read more
YOU NEED TO KNOW Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem was asked about a Purple Heart veteran deported by ICE during a December 11 hearing. Representative Seth Magaziner brought the veteran, Sae Joon Park, to the hearing on Zoom after he was deported to Korea earlier this year Magaziner accused Noem of not knowing “the difference … Read more
A Democratic lawmaker forced the Secretary of Health and Human Services Kristi Noem to confront a Purple Heart veteran who was deported by ICE — just moments after denying that any citizens or veterans have been made to leave the United States/ When it was his turn to grill Noem during a House hearing on … Read more
A federal judge investigating whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should face contempt charges over flights carrying migrants to El Salvador said Monday he wants to hear from a whistleblower and a senior Justice Department official. US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington ordered the government to make Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign available … Read more
The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington DC last week spent weeks alone in a dark room and suffered “manic episodes” – according to comments written in 2024 by a caseworker who helped the suspect’s family relocate after fleeing Afghanistan. Rahmanullah Lakanwal is accused of carrying out an “ambush” that killed … Read more