QOTD: Don't Expect Improvements At DHS

 

The Guardian's Moira Donegan looks at what lies ahead for the Department of Homeland Security, now that Kristi "ICE Barbie" Noem was canned (apparently along with her alleged paramour Corey Lewandowski) and has moved on to a made-up job in the regime.  Her orders came from the sick bigot Stephen Miller, and her replacement is a muscle-headed goon who can be expected to carry out orders from the White House, too:

"Noem was incompetent, corrupt, and seemingly indifferent to both the law and to human suffering. But in this, she was not so much a liability for the Trump administration as a perfect embodiment of Maga governance. Her rule over DHS was marked by an aggressive pursuit of the mass deportation and ethnic cleansing campaign that Trump campaigned on heavily in 2024; she seems to have been heavily influenced in her decision-making by the advice of Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who is known for his hardline views on immigration and racial supremacy. “'Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,' she is said to have told one interlocutor.

Noem’s departure, then, seems unlikely to ring in a new era of responsibility, legality or professionalism at the department. In his post firing her, Trump said that Markwayne Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma and a former MMA fighter, would be the next DHS secretary; technically, such an appointment requires Senate approval, but Mullin’s nomination seems unlikely to face much meaningful resistance in the Republican-controlled upper chamber. Mullin, a close Trump ally and immigration maximalist, is unlikely to mark much of a departure from Noem, either in policy substance or managerial savvy. The mass deportations, self-dealing and aggressive, even seemingly contemptuous approach to citizens and their rights seems likely to continue for as long as Trump, Miller and their allies control the vast apparatus of the DHS."  (our emphasis)

Mullin won't undo the damage done by the Malignant Fascist's cruel and illegal campaign of terror against immigrants; he'll continue it, perhaps only with some greater attention than his predecessor to the bad publicity it generates. The bad times will continue.

BONUS: Here's Markwaynesworld. Feel safe?

Meet the new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin:

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— Home of the Brave (@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM

(photos: Out with the old, in with the old/ Getty Images)