The Democrats in the Senate ARE holding Homeland’s Budget by the neck….
Headlines for ICE are still about things like arresting 85 year olds.…
Trump’s Immigration ‘Thing’ is polling negative……
Miller is still working at the White House….
But seems to have been throttled ?
Trump’s people say the changes are just media*….
Oh?
And ICE agent HAS been charged with a crime by a Minnesota DA….
FEMA get a new head that IS Against closing down the agency…..
The Trump administration is discarding its shock-and-awe publicity tactics on immigration after mass deportations were met with mass backlash.
Why it matters: The White House has become allergic to the edgy memes, embedded camera crews and cosplaying officials that dominated former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s tenure.
- A former DHS official said “cooler heads have prevailed” in the White House and are re-calibrating the messaging, naming chief of staff Susie Wiles and her deputy James Blair as among the cooler heads.
- But other White House staffers, such as deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, have pushed DHS into some of the confrontations that tanked public opinion, as Axios has previously reported.
- “Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,” Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios back in November.
The other side: “This anonymous former official clearly has no idea what they’re talking about. The President’s entire team is working together on the same page to implement his agenda: historic deportations of criminal illegal aliens,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Axios.
- Miller previously told Axios that the White House had given DHS clear guidance on its personnel and mission in Minneapolis. Miller also said that Minneapolis’s operation didn’t follow those guidelines.
Between the lines: “There was a priority on people seeing the enforcement actions,” the former agency official told Axios about the aggressive tactics of 2025.
- “Some of the law enforcement actions you see, even if they’re hardened criminals, it can be hard optics. They can be hard to stomach when you’re seeing really physical altercations,” the former official said.
- “You have the base that is demanding this action, and you need to get them out for the midterms. And if they’re not seeing it, to them, it’s not happening.”
Flashback: Noem, dressed as an ICE agent, spent parts of last year trailing agents making arrests around the country. The Trump administration said it wanted to emphasize “the visuals.”
- For about nine months, Border Patrol official Greg Bovino was plucked from the El Centro sector to lead interior enforcement in cities with often violent tactics and rabid social media promotion.
- Last May, Miller told reporters that Trump was elected in large part to “deport the illegals” and “remove the people from this country that we don’t want here.” Soon after, federal agents swarmed Los Angeles.
That’s changed this year: Today, the administration realizes its polling numbers have plummeted on immigration enforcement and Miller has been less present in media appearances on the issue, although he’s still firmly entrenched in his role.
- New DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s first press stop (in business attire) was to promote FEMA’s efforts in North Carolina.
- Bovino’s social media accounts were deleted and Trump called in White House Border Czar Tom Homan to become more involved with ICE’s operations.
The latest: Homan said he’s actively working on plans to change ICE’s social media presence, in an interview with America First Legal’s podcast.
- “I think that’s gonna be important because we can’t lose the faith in American people,” Homan said, adding it was needed to combat fake news….
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Acting US ICE head Todd Lyons to leave agency at end of May
Trump to Pick Ousted FEMA Head to Lead Agency Again
Cameron Hamilton is a former Navy SEAL who ran unsuccessfully for Congress.
President Trump intends to nominate Cameron Hamilton to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency after he was pushed out as acting leader nearly a year ago, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Mr. Hamilton, who has limited disaster management experience, is a former Navy SEAL who worked for a defense contractor and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Virginia before taking over FEMA.
Mr. Hamilton was ousted from that position after he told members of Congress that the agency should not be eliminated. Mr. Trump had said early in his second term, “I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away.” But when Congress pressed him on the agency’s future in a hearing last May, Mr. Hamilton contradicted that outlook.
“I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” Mr. Hamilton said on May 7….
*Note….
Media looking under the hood on Miller’s efforts shows that numbers peddled are actually NOT what the true numbers ARE….
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