The White House wants Kim Kardashian to keep quiet about matters like mass deportation.
The Department of Homeland Security blasted Kardashian over recent comments she made about the president’s crackdown on immigration, specifically the ongoing ICE raids that have pushed deportation numbers to nearly 200,000 since Trump’s takeover seven months ago.
“In the news you hear, ‘Oh, it’s about people who have committed these crimes and [ICE is] trying to help out our country,’” Kardashian told reporters Thursday night.
“But then you hear about all of the people who have worked so hard to build our country, and so many people that are such a part of our country getting affected,” she continued. “People I know. People my friends know.”
The 44-year-old reality star was in Venice, Italy, when she expressed her dismay over the current state of affairs. She was there to accept the Diane von Furstenberg (DVF) Leadership Award, which recognized her work as a criminal justice advocate.
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, in a statement to TMZ, has since discouraged the reality star from speaking out in the future, suggesting she’s not knowledgeable enough to address the issues at hand.
“Ms. Kardashian is misinformed and detached from the very reality of the operations in Los Angeles she has decided to opine on,” McLaughlin said. “These are the violent criminals who Homeland Security, under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, have removed from Los Angeles’s streets: murderers, rapists, gang members and child pedophiles.”
Kardashian has previously discussed the immigration enforcement operations in her hometown, when protests over ICE raids in L.A. were at their peak. She again questioned why the agency appeared to be targeting innocent immigrants and separating them from their families.
“Why does Ms. Kardashian continue to do the bidding of criminals at the expense of innocent Americans and brave law enforcement?” McLaughlin’s statement concluded.
Homeland Security is on track to reach its highest rate of removals in at least a decade, but the figure still falls short of its deportation goal. To hit its target, the Trump administration has enlisted multiple federal agencies to boost enforcement operations, most recently in Washington, D.C.
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