WASHINGTON – The Trump administration revoked immigration protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday.

Anand Giridharadas, 46, made the remark Tuesday, as he reacted in real-time to a early morning tweet from newly named head of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The Trump administration has revoked an extension of deportation protections for over 600,000 Venezuelans, reversing a Biden-era decision.

The Guardian reports that when Trump Jr. visited the upscale Hotel Hans Egede for lunch, the “fans” wearing MAGA hats with him were actually homeless people picked up off the street who were promised a free lunch and didn’t find out who Trump was until later.

Kristi Noem was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Donald Trump's Homeland Security secretary on Saturday, putting into position a key member of the Republican's Cabinet as he launches a wide-ranging immigration crackdown.

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Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is in Codington County about 187 miles northeast of the state's capital Pierre. The new Secretary of Homeland Security is married to Bryon Noem.

The Trump administration revoked a Biden-era policy that prohibited ICE arrests at or near schools, places of worship and other "sensitive locations."

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of homeland security, got some heat for rattling off dubious statistics during her Senate confirmation hearing Friday.

Donald Trump, on the first day of his second term as president, used a two-prong attack to target his most pernicious enemy – an accurate history of his first term.

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 13 to 2 on Monday night to advance Noem’s nomination to the Senate floor.

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