Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has come out in favor of at least one reform that Democrats are demanding of her department — in one of the most turbulent cities where the Trump administration has been engaging in immigration enforcement.
Noem posted Monday on X that after speaking with border czar Tom Homan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, “every officer in the field in Minneapolis” will now be wearing body cameras.
“As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country,” the DHS chief added.
“The most transparent administration in American history—thank you @POTUS Trump.”
Universal body cameras are just one of many proposals congressional Democrats are hoping to tuck into a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security this month — following the fatal shootings of two anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis by federal agents.
President Trump struck a deal last week with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to pass a stopgap funding bill for the embattled department while negotiators hash out other proposals to ban ICE agents from wearing masks, force them to identify themselves and require them to secure judicial warrants for removals.
On Monday, Trump appeared to endorse Noem’s move to deploy the body cameras.
“I leave it to her,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “They generally tend to be good for law enforcement, because people can’t lie about what’s happening. So it’s generally speaking, I think 80% good for law enforcement. But if she wants to do that, I’m okay with it.”
