Kristi Noem: Videotaping ICE Agents Constitutes Violence

ICE Agent Safety and Violence

• ⚠️ Secretary Kristi Noem stated that ICE agents have experienced a 700% increase in violence against them during arrests.
• 🎯 Violence is defined as anything threatening agent safety, including doxing, videotaping operations, and encouraging attacks with objects like rocks and Molotov cocktails.
• 🔥 The incident at a California marijuana grow facility is described as horrendous, with individuals attempting to physically harm and kill officers by throwing rocks at vehicles.

Child Trafficking and Exploitation

• 🔍 The operation in California was initiated due to intelligence about child trafficking and exploitation at the marijuana grow facility.
• ⚖️ Over a hundred individuals involved in criminal activity and unaccompanied children were found and addressed.
• 💡 Noem referenced President Trump's efforts in finding over 10,000 missing children under the Biden administration, who were allegedly exploited through sex or work trafficking.
• 👏 Over 400 individuals associated with a federal agency allegedly involved in child exploitation have been arrested.

Upholding the Law

• ✅ Noem expressed that those upholding the law are doing "God's work" by protecting children from victimization.