Donald Trump made his first cabinet-level firing last week when he expelled Kristi Noem. In her one year leading the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Noem sparked widespread criticism for overseeing inhumane immigration policies and avoiding questions about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers’ shooting of protesters in Minneapolis. She even earned the nickname Ice Barbie. “Good riddance,” Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey wrote on social media about her ousting. But immigration advocates were not the only critics celebrating her departure. Current and former US disaster response workers, who fell under Noem’s homeland security brief, had also long warned her
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