Conservatives are celebrating Donald Trump’s decision to dispatch border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota to oversee immigration enforcement operations in the Minneapolis area, in what was widely seen as an attempt to sideline Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Trump’s decision comes just two days after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. While Noem subsequently claimed that Pretti had “arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and kill law enforcement,” footage of the incident contradicts her description of it.
On Sunday, conservative radio host Erick Erickson suggested that Pretti’s death and tense atmosphere in the Gopher State were attributable to Noem’s leadership.
“Darth Homan, you will go to planet Minneapolis in the Minnesota system. There you will stay, until this rebel uprising is crushed. Do not fail me.”
Yes, my emperor. But what of Lord Noem’s campaign of public executions?
“She is as clumsy as she is stupid. You will maintain tight control of the imperial garrison there.”
Yes, my emperor. They will never see their rebellion crushed from the inside!
(queue evil music)