While highlighting 200 days of success in the defending the homeland, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing personal struggles on the home front.
Noem reported that 1.6 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. in the past 200 days. But DHS officials revealed that she has temporarily moved into military housing amid doxxing, death threats and growing concerns for her safety, Fox News Digital reported.
In less than 200 days, 1.6 MILLION illegal immigrants have left the United States population. This is massive. This means safer streets, taxpayer savings, pressure off of schools and hospital services and better job opportunities for Americans.
Thank you @POTUS Trump!
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) August 14, 2025
“Following the media’s publishing of the location of Secretary Noem’s Washington D.C. apartment, she has faced vicious doxxing on the dark web and a surge in death threats, including from the terrorist organizations, cartels, and criminal gangs that DHS targets,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “Due to threats and security concerns, she has been forced to temporarily stay in secure military housing.”
Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, has three children and four grandchildren. She has often said that her greatest accomplishment was raising her three children, Kassidy, Kennedy, and Booker, with her husband Bryon. She continues to pay rent for her Navy Yard residence, McLaughlin said.
Noem also had her purse stolen by a professional purse-snatcher while she was dining at The Capital Burger restaurant Washington, D.C., restaurant on Easter Sunday 2025.
“It’s a shame that the media chooses sensationalism over the safety of people enforcing America’s laws to keep Americans safe,” McLaughlin added.
Under Noem’s leadership, DHS has virtually closed the southern border, arrested and removed thousands of criminal illegal aliens, safeguarded U.S. cyber infrastructure and achieved historic international agreements to reduce illegal immigration and cartel activity.
“When you have the will, the work ethic, and love of country—incredible things can be achieved for the American people,” DHS shared on X.
In addition, DHS launched Operation Homecoming, a campaign to encourage illegal immigrants to self-deport by offering a free flight and $1,000 relocation assistance.
“This is massive,” Noem said of reports that 1.6 million illegals have left the country since President Donald Trump took office. “This means safer streets, taxpayer savings, pressure off of schools and hospital services and better job opportunities for Americans. Thank you, President Trump!”
Noem’s message, highlighted in this video on X, is simple and clear: “If you are in America illegally, leave now or face arrest, deportation and fines.” If illegal immigrants take control of their departure, they have the chance to return legally in the future.
The world has heard our message: if you are in America illegally, LEAVE NOW.
In less than 200 days, 1.6 MILLION illegal immigrants have left the United States population. Under President Trump, we now have safer streets, better jobs for Americans, and less strain on schools,… pic.twitter.com/DwS1zuR2TZ
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) August 14, 2025
President Trump ended the CBP One App, which allowed more than one million migrants to illegally enter the country through a Biden-era program.
Officials replaced the app with the CBP Home App to encourage migrants to leave on their own. They can use the app to self-deport and receive the $1,000 stipend paid after their return to their home country has been confirmed through the app, plus forgiveness of any civil fines or penalties.
DHS announced some of the agency’s first 200-day highlights last week and shared highlights in a video posted on X:
- Daily southwest border encounters have plunged by 93% since President Donald Trump took office.
- In June, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had the lowest number of nationwide encounters in CBP history at 24,628.
- In May, June and July, U.S. Border Patrol reported zero parole releases—reinforcing the Administration’s commitment to ending catch-and-release policies.
- The Trump administration arrested more than 352,000 illegal aliens and removed more than 324,000.
- 70% of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests are criminal illegal aliens with criminal charges or convictions in the U.S.
- CBP and ICE began widescale immigration enforcement operations in sanctuary city Los Angeles and southern California. In total, since June 6, DHS arrested 4,481 illegal aliens in the Los Angeles area.
- ICE Homeland Security Investigations has located over 13,000 unaccompanied minor children.
- President Trump ended the broad abuse of humanitarian parole and returned the program to a case-by-case basis. As part of this effort, Secretary Noem terminated the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela parole programs.
- DHS has returned the Temporary Protected Status immigration program to its original status: temporary. Secretary Noem ended the TPS designations of the previous administration for Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, Nepali Cameroon and Afghanistan.
- Noem has signed 16 agreements with other countries related to immigration and other travel requirements that advance President Trump’s agenda of making America safe.
- Migrants are turning back before they even reach our border—migration through Panama’s Darien Gap is down 99.98%.
- DHS secured historic funding for ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies, immigration detention facilities and the completion of the border wall through the One Big Beautiful Bill. The legislation includes over $5 billion for new technology and border surveillance.
- After weeks of delays by activist judges, the Department of Homeland Security deported eight barbaric, violent criminal illegal aliens to South Sudan and resumed third-country deportations.
- DHS launched Defend the Homeland; a historic nationwide campaign aimed at recruiting Americans to join ICE and help President Trump and Secretary Noem remove criminal illegal aliens. Since the campaign took off, ICE has received more than 100,000 applications.
In @Sec_Noem’s first 200 days on the job, DHS has been hard at work delivering on President Trump’s promise of making America safe again. pic.twitter.com/c0pfFGFtX8
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 14, 2025
Despite the department’s efforts to make America safer, Noem said last week that ICE agents “are now facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them as they risk their lives to arrest the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.”
“We will not and have not let this violence stop us or slow us down,” Noem added in a post on X. “Every day our law enforcement continues to enforce the law and arrest the most depraved criminals including pedophiles, terrorists, murderers, gang members, and sexual predators.”
