Kristi Noem Spreads Bizarre, Unsubstantiated Story About Detaining A Cannibal | EUROtoday

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem added one other dehumanizing label on Tuesday to her record of descriptors meant to justify the rounding up of migrants: cannibals.

The Republican joined President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in touring the state’s controversial new migrant detention facility, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The facility is a product of the Trump administration’s wider ongoing effort to incarcerate and deport the nation’s immigrant inhabitants.

At a roundtable following the tour, Noem repeated her earlier accusations that media shops like CNN are mendacity “every single day about what these operations are” — and echoed the GOP speaking level that the Department of Homeland Security is “going after murderers and rapists and traffickers and drug dealers.”

Then the secretary started telling a weird story about how U.S. marshals working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement advised her they detained a cannibal and put him on a deportation flight. (Watch the video under.)

“And while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself. And they had to get him off and get him medical attention,” she advised reporters. “These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America, that we’re trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged they don’t belong here.”

Tuesday shouldn’t be the primary time Noem shared the story of an alleged cannibal. On Friday, the secretary advised the identical anecdote to Jesse Waters on Fox News, saying the person was consuming his personal arm whereas shackled.

“That is what he did,” she stated. “He called himself a cannibal, ate other people and ate himself.”

It must be strongly famous that there isn’t any proof supporting Noem’s anecdote. HuffPost has reached out to each DHS and ICE to see if they may confirm the story, which didn’t embody the alleged man’s identify, location or nation of origin. Neither company instantly responded.

Noem and the remainder of the Trump administration have repeatedly used racist, xenophobic and dehumanizing language to explain immigrants, portray them as rabid “invaders” harmful to society and the American lifestyle.

Experts say the language is supposed to justify the animus and the violent raids towards migrants, together with at immigration courthouses the place individuals with no legal file are pursuing citizenship the authorized manner. Several research have discovered that immigrants and asylum-seekers are much less prone to commit crimes than native-born U.S. residents.