NCS’s resident knowledge guru Harry Enten experiences that Americans are fed up with ICE Barbie.
Enten, the community’s chief knowledge correspondent, stated throughout Monday’s broadcast of NCS News Central that Americans’ religion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement has plummeted below the management of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“I’m not really surprised that President Trump is sending Tom Homan in because ICE, DHS, and Kristi Noem have been a political disaster,” Enten informed this system’s co-anchor, Kate Bolduan.
“Just take a look here, ICE’s net approval rating during Trump’s terms,“ he continued. ”You return to time period primary, it was fairly even at zero factors. You go to June 2025—that was when all that stuff was happening in Los Angeles—they dropped down—take a look at this—17 factors. Way within the basement.”
Noem’s net approval rating among Americans has continued to wane throughout the second Trump administration. / Al Drago/Getty Images
“But then, after Minneapolis, it’s even lower: Minus 27 points on the net approval rating of ICE—of course, all this being done under Kristi Noem.”
Enten explained that it’s been a downhill streak for ICE since Noem, nicknamed ICE Barbie for her rotating wardrobe of law enforcement cosplays, took the reins as the face of ICE last year.
Regarding DHS as a whole, Enten said, it’s “just the same exact story.”
“During Trump’s first term, look where it was in late 2017: 59 percent—that’s pretty gosh darn good!“ he said. ”But take a look at the place it’s now in Trump’s time period quantity two: By late final yr, it was right down to 42 %.“
Anti-ICE demonstrations have sprung up across the country in response to the agency’s aggressive and inhumane tactics. / Anadolu / Anadolu via Getty Images
“So this is the same story we’re seeing no matter which poll question we look at,” Enten added. “The popularity of ICE, of DHS, has completely fallen under the second Trump term, the second Trump administration.”
“All the actions in Minneapolis, in Los Angeles, in these major American cities, have been very much rejected by the American people,” he continued. “It has been a political disaster for the second Trump administration.”
Switching gears to Noem specifically, the data expert noted that her net approval has dipped another five points since July of 2025, when it was already sitting at minus 11 points.
“Every single poll that has been conducted on Kristi Noem’s popularity—every single one—the net approval has been negative,” Enten said. “ICE is negative, DHS is negative.”
Noem has despatched much more ICE brokers to Minneapolis, a metropolis already on edge. / Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images
“As I said at the top, Kate, this has been an absolute political disaster for the President of the United States,” Enten concluded. “It’s not much of a surprise to me if [Trump] wants to push Noem to the side.”
After federal ICE brokers fatally shot a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis on Saturday, the second time this month, requires Noem’s ousting as head of the DHS have skyrocketed.
Noem first stoked the flames of a political firestorm when she referred to as 37-year-old mom Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot at level clean vary in her automobile by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7, a “domestic terrorist” who “weaponized her vehicle” in an try to hurt federal officers, solely hours after the capturing.
Noem employed the identical rhetorical technique on Saturday when 37-year-old VA nurse, Alex Pretti, was shot quite a few instances by Border Patrol brokers after he stepped in to dam officers who had shoved a lady down onto the pavement.
Demonstrators march in the course of the nationwide
In the wake of Saturday’s capturing, even Trump has taken to distancing himself from Noem, refusing to corroborate her claims that officers had been justified in capturing Pretti.
The president told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday that the administration is “reviewing everything and will come out with a determination” relating to the capturing.
Trump additionally successfully sidelined Noem when he introduced on Monday that he would ship his border czar, Tom Homan, to ease tensions in Minneapolis.
“He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.