Noem Responds To New York Magazine Article
The New York Magazine piece on Kristi Noem is a perfect snapshot of how the legacy media operates: take a conservative woman in a position of power, lace together anonymous gossip, soap opera innuendo, and overblown horror stories, then present it all as serious journalism. The end result reads less like investigative reporting and more like a preteen’s diary entry—angry, melodramatic, and short on substance.
The hit job paints Noem as an “empty vessel,” a reckless governor, and Corey Lewandowski’s rumored fling, while alleging DHS under her leadership is running some sort of dystopian police state.
That narrative conveniently ignores reality. Noem, faced with a border crisis and lawlessness, has overseen a DHS that is actually doing what the agency was created to do: enforce immigration law, protect U.S. borders, and safeguard national security.
The numbers speak louder than any hand-wringing anecdote. Illegal crossings are down 93 percent since Trump’s return. Daily apprehensions have dropped by 96 percent. Unlike the chaos of the Biden years, zero illegal aliens have been released into the interior over the past four months.
More than 2 million people who had no legal right to remain are now gone. That’s enforcement. That’s deterrence. That’s saving taxpayers $13.2 billion already.
And the enforcement isn’t limited to immigration. On the seas, the Coast Guard has seized record amounts of narcotics, including a staggering 76,000-pound haul from one operation alone. Drug cartels are on notice in a way they haven’t been in decades.
Meanwhile, the liberal framing is as predictable as it is tired: cries of “police state,” cherry-picked sob stories of detention, and handwringing over the idea that laws are actually being enforced. Never mind that DHS is acting squarely within its mandate.
Never mind that the American people, sick of unchecked illegal immigration, have demanded precisely this kind of action.
Noem’s response to the article was pitch-perfect: dismissing it as a ChatGPT-written tantrum laced with misogyny buzzwords and devoid of substance. She’s right. Because when you strip away the gossip and hyperbole, what’s left is undeniable—under Trump and Noem, DHS is finally doing its job.