On a lake, when the ice cracks, you can hear it propagate across the water… ICE is doing the same with the Republicans; you can see the cracks spreading.
Slowly, Trump is sinking! He is way down in the polls, and ICE is the albatross pulling him down!
ReuterBy Bo Erickson, Brad Brooks, Tim Reid and Nathan LayneJanuary 28, 2026Summary
- Trump's immigration tactics cause unease among voters, potentially threaten Republican midterm prospects
- Republican strategists warn of political risks from aggressive immigration enforcement
- Democrats see opportunity in opposing Trump's immigration crackdown, aim to mobilize voters
- President Donald Trump's hardline immigration agenda, a key force behind his return to the White House in 2024, is increasingly showing signs of becoming a liability, threatening Republican prospects in the November midterm elections.
What was once his most potent campaign issue is now driving unease among voters unsettled by the administration’s aggressive tactics in its immigration crackdown, including the targeting of U.S. citizens and violent measures against peaceful protesters.Illegal immigration and inflation were the twin issues that helped Trump win the election. Now, opinion polls show a growing number of Americans, including key independent voters, are unhappy with Trump's handling of both, putting Republicans on the defensive ahead of the midterms.
The cracks are showing — the people do not like what Trump is doing!
The cracks are spreading.
The lake is no longer silent.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is on “very thin ice,” a White House official told MS NOW.By Laura Barrón-López, Jake Traylor, Marc Santia, Jacqueline Alemany, and Ali VitaliDec. 8, 2025,White House officials have grown frustrated with Kristi Noem’s leadership of the Department of Homeland Security, leading to calls for a new secretary to more aggressively support key parts of the president’s deportation agenda, two sources familiar with the situation told MS NOW.President Trump is considering removing Noem as secretary as early as January, according to a White House official, a current federal official and two former Homeland Security officials.Noem is on “very thin ice,” a White House official told MS NOW, adding she will likely be replaced early next year. The White House official added that Stephen Miller, President Trump’s deputy chief of staff, is leading the charge to remove Noem.Frustrations from Miller and other senior White House officials are two-fold. Noem isn’t moving fast enough to build out more detention centers with the money approved in Trump’s big summer spending bill, the White House official and a federal official said. The bill directed $170 billion toward immigration enforcement, with some $75 billion going to ICE alone. That massive cash infusion included $45 billion specifically for detention facilities.Multiple governors have also called Trump personally and voiced frustration with Noem’s handling of FEMA and disaster relief funds, the White House official told MS NOW.
Now over month later the crack is getting even wider!
AxiosMarc CaputoJan 28, 2026Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wanted to "massacre" them.
- That language has now become a source of controversy in the Trump administration.
- White House officials are blaming Customs and Border Patrol for furnishing inaccurate information, while others are targeting Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and top Trump adviser, six sources with knowledge of the situation told Axios.
Why it matters: The episode illustrates the confusion that gripped the administration after the Saturday shooting death of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. And it shows the influence of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title.
- Miller's power extends to de facto oversight of Noem, though she's a Cabinet secretary who technically outranks him.
- "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.
We are now in the blame-game part of the crack!
Between the lines: Miller said the Minnesota operation didn't follow the guidelines established by the White House in the aftermath of the Jan. 7 shooting of another Minneapolis demonstrator, Renee Good.
- Specifically, Miller said, Bovino's crew was supposed to divide its force into two groups: One unit was supposed to handle the arrests of specifically targeted "criminal aliens" and the other squad was in charge of crowd control to keep "disruptors" from interfering.
- "The White House provided clear guidance to DHS that the extra personnel that had been sent to Minnesota for force protection should be used for conducting fugitive operations to create a physical barrier between the arrest teams and the disruptors," Miller said.
- "We are evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol."
No, no it wasn't me it was... the finger pointing begins!
Key senators urge resignation as Democrats threaten to impeach DHS secretary if Trump does not fire herThe GuardianChris Stein in WashingtonTue 27 Jan 2026Top House Democrats on Tuesday told Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem or they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary, in response to the weekend killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, as two Republican senators join calls for her to resign.The ultimatum from Democrats came after a majority of the House caucus signed on to articles of impeachment introduced earlier in the month in response to the shooting death of Renee Good, who, like Pretti, was a US citizen killed by federal agents during the increasingly violent immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota’s largest city.“The violence unleashed on the American people by the Department of Homeland Security must end forthwith. Kristi Noem should be fired immediately, or we will commence impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives,” said Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, and his two deputies, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, in a joint statement.
The guys got the perfect fall-girl to rap.
Thump, thump, that was the sound of the Republican clown car running over Kristi.
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