Kristi Noem Must Think the Coast Guard Is Her Own Personal Deportation Service

"The tension between some Coast Guard officials and [Kristi] Noem began after a 23-year-old Coast Guardsman went overboard into the Pacific Ocean from the cutter Waesche on Feb. 4 last year, shortly after the Senate confirmed Noem into her role, according to the two U.S. officials, the Coast Guard official and the former Coast Guard official. The Coast Guard had surged ships and aircraft to the Pacific to find the guardsman."

"Hours into the search, Noem learned that a Coast Guard C-130 that was supposed to fly detained migrants from California to Texas was among the aircraft over the Pacific looking for the missing guardsman, and she intervened, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official. Noem verbally instructed the acting commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Kevin Lunday, to pull the plane off the search and rescue mission so it would not miss the immigrant flight as part of the DHS's so-called Alien Expulsion Operations, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official."

"Lunday notified the National Command Center, which ordered the C-130 to fly to San Diego while other aircraft and ships involved in the search continued, according to one of the U.S. officials and the current Coast Guard official. It long ago became maniacal, this endless, reckless pursuit of people alleged to have committed the misdemeanor of coming into the country without proper documentation. Every element of the federal government seems to have been engaged in what can properly be described as a racially directed frenzy without end. Noem is at the front of the blank-eyed constitutional heretics who have signed onto this peculiar crusade. When Marco Rubio goes to Munich-nice touch, there-and bloviates about "civilizational erasure" he is only the gaudily fashioned handle on the spear. Kristi Noem is its tip."

A 23-year-old Coast Guardsman went overboard from the cutter Waesche on Feb. 4, prompting a Coast Guard surge of ships and aircraft into the Pacific. Hours into the search, a Coast Guard C-130 tasked to fly detained migrants from California to Texas was among the aircraft searching the ocean. Kristi Noem intervened and instructed the acting commandant to pull the plane off the search so it would not miss the immigrant flight. Adm. Kevin Lunday notified the National Command Center, which diverted the C-130 to San Diego while other assets continued the search. The migrant enforcement effort is characterized as an obsessive, racially directed campaign.

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