Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been busted trying to pass off a group of detained Salvadorans as Venezuelans in a fear-mongering publicity stunt hyping her immigration crackdown.
Noem, dubbed “ICE Barbie” for her love of highly stylized anti-immigration photo ops, dressed up for the cameras during a tour of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) facility in March 2025. The visit took place soon after the Trump administration claimed it had sent more than 200 suspected Venezuelan gang members to the notorious mega prison as part of its mass-deportations of migrants it labeled the “worst of the worst.”
But some of the men Noem had paraded out to stand behind her for the video were not Venezuelan at all, according to a segment of CBS News’ 60 Minutes that aired Sunday after previously being pulled by the network’s new Trump-friendly boss. A team of students at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center—along with Human Rights Watch—flagged glaring inconsistencies in Noem’s video.
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