Let’s put this situation in the “What the heck?!” category. Details of this unusual occurrence were revealed on Tuesday during a discussion at “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida. The event took place while Noem and President Donald Trump were present to talk about the new illegal immigration detention facility and offered a guided tour of the site.
“President Trump is defending freedom with his actions,” Noem stated. “And to those liberals, especially you, CNN, I’m calling you out because you misrepresent what’s happening every day. We are targeting murderers, rapists, traffickers, and drug dealers, removing them from our streets, and expelling them from this nation because [former President] Joe Biden allowed the most dangerous individuals to enter.”
🚨 WTF?! Kristi Noem just revealed one of the illegals they arrested was a cannibal who began to EAT HIMSELF on a deportation flight
THIS is why we need mass roundups.
These people are ANIMALS.
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 1, 2025
“Recently, I spoke with some marshals working alongside ICE who mentioned that they had apprehended a cannibal [illegal alien] and were in the process of deporting him,” she continued. “Incredibly, while he was seated on the plane, he began to eat himself, which led to them needing to remove him to provide medical care.”
“These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we are trying to target and get out of our country,” Noem continued. “Because they are so deranged, they don’t belong here. They shouldn’t be walking the streets with our children.”
At one point during the roundtable, Noem said that violence against ICE officers and border patrol agents has “increased over 500 percent since Trump has gone back into the White House.”
“Because he’s been upholding the law and because a bunch of liberals, socialists, and Marxists are out there lying about what President Trump is doing,” the DHS Secretary added.
RedState reported earlier that Noem announced that the Department of Justice is looking into the prosecution of CNN for promoting ICEBlock, a new app that tells illegal immigrants when ICE agents are nearby.
READ MORE: Trump, Noem Announce DOJ Looking Into Prosecuting CNN for Promoting ICEBlock App and More
Speaking from the new detention facility, Noem was asked about CNN pushing the app that lets a person track where ICE agents are and Border Czar Tom Homan’s comments about prosecuting the network.
President Donald Trump responded, “It’s okay with me,” before Noem replied.
🔥HOLY SMOKES: Kristi Noem just announced that she’s working with the Department of Justice to look into PROSECUTING CNN for pushing the dangerous app “ICEBlock” which puts ICE agents in harm’s way! pic.twitter.com/hCi2hDyxF0
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 1, 2025
“We are working with the Department of Justice to see if we can prosecute them for that,” the DHS secretary told the member of the press. “Because what they are doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activities and operations.”
“And we are going to actually go after them and prosecute them with the partnership of [..] if we can,” she added. “Because what they are doing, we believe, is illegal.”
During a White House Press Briefing on Monday, a reporter asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the ICEBlock app, given the massive rise in attacks and assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Leavitt first admitted she hadn’t seen the CNN clip promoting the app but said that it sounded like “this would be an incitement of further violence against our ICE officers, as you just stated.”
“There’s been a 500 percent increase in violence against ICE agents, law enforcement officers across the country who are just simply trying to do their jobs,” she added. “And remove public safety threats from our communities, and that’s something we as Americans, including journalists at CNN who live in many of these cities, where illegal aliens are hiding and were let in from the previous administrations, should be very grateful for.”
BREAKING 🚨 Karoline Leavitt left STUNNED after learning CNN is possibly “inciting vioIence” against ICE Agents by promoting an app that tracks them
THIS NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED IMMEDIATELY pic.twitter.com/CCTCYkTb0v
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) June 30, 2025
“We haven’t seen the clip. We will take a look at it,” Leavitt continued. “But certainly, it’s unacceptable that a major network would promote such an app that would encourage violence against law enforcement officers who are trying to keep our country safe.”
RedState has reported on the numerous fake news reports coming out of legacy media around the illegal immigration issue, which range from gaslighting on anti-ICE riots, falsely claiming the DHS denied medical care to an illegal alien child with leukemia, and those initial reports about the left’s favorite once-deported illegal immigrant whom it so lovingly labeled simply a “Maryland father.”
READ MORE: At It Again: Media Outlet Plays Fast and Loose With Story on ‘Kidnapped’ Illegal, DHS Sets Them Straight
