Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem's shambolic ICE tour
President Donald Trump has made it clear from the start that he wants to run the largest deportation operation in the country’s history, pushing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain at least 3,000 migrants a day with a goal of a million deportations a year. What’s become more obvious since he federalized the National Guard in Los Angeles during the summer, against the wishes of California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, is that the plan for mass deportations is also meant to provoke a response to justify harsh crackdowns on Trump’s political foes — and now his people are admitting as much.
Texas National Guard troops entered Chicago on Tuesday, over the objections of Illinois’ Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker. Meanwhile, Trump signaled he may soon invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows a president to dispatch active-duty military to states that are defying federal law. The threat is a show of force meant to shore up a flailing president, whose heavy-handed tactics in rounding up undocumented immigrants — and in some cases, legal residents and even U.S. citizens — appear to have contributed to his slipping poll numbers on immigration.
Although the president may not care about public opinion, more than 60% of Americans oppose the recent troop deployments, according to a new CNN poll. In the face of this disapproval, Trump’s foot soldiers have fanned out across the country to sell an increasingly wary nation on effectively federalizing policing in American cities.
“Chicago will be saved,” FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X on Tuesday, announcing his visit to the Windy City. Even though Chicago just ended a summer with the lowest homicide rate in 60 years, the administration is arguing that local law enforcement officials are failing to protect federal immigration agents and therefore need military help. Criticism is escalating in the wake of a series of over-the-top ICE operations in the last week, including allegedly pepper spraying Chicago police and detaining children.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who said in 2024 there would be “war on our hands” if former President Joe Biden federalized national guard troops, kicked off her swing in Chicago with an awkward pit stop on Friday at a municipal building for a bathroom break. But the doors were slammed shut in her face. “Absolutely shameful,” Noem complained afterward on X and Fox News. Since the entire tour is a content operation, the embarrassing moment was caught on camera.
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