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One Month of Secretary Noem: TPS Rollback, Grant Funding Stopped, Border Numbers Down

February 25, 2025 · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · 0:01:44

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What happened

A Department of Homeland Security video recapped Secretary Kristi Noem’s first month in office. In clips, Noem said Secretary Mayorkas had put in place an 18-month extension of Temporary Protected Status and that she rolled that back, and she announced that the department had stopped all grant funding being abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration into the country, as she stated it.

The video noted that National Guard members were fully deputized to pursue and prosecute offenders, and reported that IRS agents could soon join immigration raids, with Noem asking the Treasury Department to deputize their agents. Noem warned people considering entering America illegally not to think about it.

She said the border numbers had trickled down almost to zero in President Trump’s first weeks, calling it remarkable what the president accomplished, and repeated her enforcement message: if you come to the country and break its laws, you will be hunted down, and criminals are not welcome in the United States.

Why it matters

The one-month recap is DHS’s own accounting of its opening moves — TPS, NGO funding, deputization, and border flow — and the baseline claims against which its first-year record is measured.

Scoreboard watch

Noem’s claim that border numbers had trickled down almost to zero in the administration’s first weeks is a checkable scoreboard figure.

Sources: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “One Month of Secretary Noem: Making America Safe Again”, 2025-02-25 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-02-25). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.