{"id":531315,"date":"2026-03-18T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531315\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:41:09","slug":"live-updates-trump-homeland-security-nominee-promises-better-approach-on-immigration-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531315\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump homeland security nominee promises ‘better approach’ on immigration enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why was former DHS head Kristi Noem replaced?published at 17:47 GMT<\/p>\n

17:47 GMT<\/p>\n

Brandon Drenon
Reporting from Washington<\/p>\n

\"KristiImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Donald Trump announced he was replacing Kristi Noem on 5 March, ending her stint as the head of the Department of Homeland Security after little more than a year.<\/p>\n

In his announcement, he did not say why he was letting Noem go but on Truth Social thanked her for “spectacular results (especially on the Border!)\u201d<\/p>\n

Her removal came as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – the agency responsible for carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda – came under increasing scrutiny and criticism over the actions of its agents.<\/p>\n

After ICE agents shot and killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota during immigration protests, Noem defended the agents while seeking to cast the victims as “domestic terrorists”. <\/p>\n

Since their deaths, public polling for how Trump has handled his immigration enforcement has plummeted.<\/p>\n

Democrats in Congress also blasted Noem for spending $220m of taxpayer money on an advertising blitz starring herself, and nearly $200m on two luxury jets for her official travel. <\/p>\n

She defended the spending during a congressional hearing, saying Trump approved it – but the president told Reuters he was not aware of the expensive campaign. “I never knew anything about it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Trump said he planned to move Noem to a new job as special envoy for a new US security initiative in the Western hemisphere called the Shield of the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why was former DHS head Kristi Noem replaced?published at 17:47 GMT 17:47 GMT Brandon DrenonReporting from Washington Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-531315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}