Kristi Noem Calls Immigrants “Dirtbags” While Dressing Up And Pretending To Be ICE Agent

Newly-sworn in Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem got to play dress up this week in New York as she donned ICE attire and pretending to be an agent. But it wasn’t the dress up that was the biggest issue – the problem is that she posted a video of herself on social media where she said that she was there to get some “dirtbags off the streets.” These are human beings that she is referring to, although she and the entire administration don’t view them that way. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Freshly minted Homeland Security Director, Christie Nome took a trip to New York City this week on Monday where she got to do a little, you know, play, dress up and pretended to be an ice agent as her agency carried out massive deportation raids in the city. But it's not just that they carried out the raids, it's not just that this grown woman played dress up to pretend she was something she's not. It's the message that she posted on social media before the raids began. At about 7:00 AM she posted this video on social media of her saying, 7:00 AM and, uh, or, or sorry, she says, here in New York City this morning, we are getting the dirt bags off these streets. And then the text of her post, 'cause that was in the video, said, 7:00 AM and NYC, getting these dirty bags off the streets. She then deleted the post because she said, dirty bags instead of dirt bags, you know, don't wanna mess that up. And then she reposted it. These dirt bags.

These are human beings, and you are a grown woman playing dress up. So who's the dirt bag there? Right? These are people living in New York City that are actually contributing to society. Your big contribution to society thus far, Christy Nome, former governor of, uh, South Dakota, is that you got the person fired in government because they wouldn't give your daughter a real estate appraiser's license. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with you being the dirt bag here. But, and by the way, just another interesting little anecdote here. Christie Nome, uh, got sworn in over the weekend, but she was so late to her own swearing in that JD Vance, the vice president who was supposed to swear her in left, she ended up having to be sworn in at Clarence Thomas's house by him. Like JD Vance didn't even bother once she finally showed up, he is like, screw this, I'm out. Um, but yeah, that, that's how little respect this woman has for the government. And her dirt bags comments show you how little respect she has for human beings. The dehumanization of these people, right? Dirt bags, scum, criminals, none of these refer to them as human beings. And for the record, most of them haven't even been criminals. Most of them have not been people that have any kind of criminal record. The flight that Columbia eventually did take in, they process these people and they came out and said, none of these people, not a single one of 'em was ever a criminal. Like these are actually just average everyday people.

You told us they were criminals. We looked into it. They, they've never broken a law except going across the border illegally, but that's also a misdemeanor. So they're lying to us. They're lying to us about what people they're rounding up, which we knew that from the start. And then you've got this homeland security, uh, uh, director playing dress up, you know, in her full ice gear. Like she's gonna go in and do the raids herself instead of sitting safely, probably in a coffee shop waiting for the phone call that had happened. This is sick. This is pathetic. This is dehumanizing, and this is how it works.

When you dehumanize these people, you call them dirt bags, you refer to them as criminals, even though they're clearly not, you use all these horrible words to describe them. We've seen that throughout history, not just in, you know, Germany in the late thirties. We've seen it all throughout human history. Whenever one group wants to exterminate another, they use the dehumanizing language, the cockroaches, the vermin, the dirt bags, because it makes people more willing to accept it. That's been done throughout human history, and we're watching it unfold right now with Christi Nome and pretty much this entire Trump administration.