Jeffries says DHS Secretary Noem 'should be run out of town' amid ICE shooting backlash

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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., directed some heated remarks at a Trump administration Cabinet official whose department has been dominating headlines in recent weeks. "What is clear is that Kristi Noem is completely and totally unqualified. She should have never been confirmed by Senate Republicans," Jeffries said of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary during a Monday press conference. "It's disgraceful that she's there. She should be run out of town as soon as possible." Criticism against Noem, DHS, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has intensified on the left in the wake of a deadly ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis last week. An ICE agent shot and killed a U.S. citizen, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who allegedly presented a threat to ICE agents as they attempted to conduct enforcement operations. Partisan fissures have since erupted over which side was acting improperly when the deadly incident occurred. ANTI-ICE AGITATORS THREATEN AGENTS IN CHAOTIC MINNESOTA PROTESTS: ‘YOU'RE GOING TO F---ING DIE' "Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, they're totally out of control. And the American people want these extremists to be reined in," Jeffries said on Monday. He said Good "should be alive today" and accused both Noem and the ICE agent who shot Good of a "depraved indifference toward human life." HOUSE REPUBLICAN CALLS FOR HEARING AFTER DEADLY ICE SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS Video of last week's incident appears to show Good's car making contact with the ICE agent who shot her before he opened fire. Arguments have since raged over whether she was deliberately getting in the way or even weaponizing her car, or whether she was trying to drive away. Federal officials like Noem have defended the agent as acting in self-defense while accusing Good of trying to actively impede ICE activity in the Democrat-controlled city. Democrats, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz , have…