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Homeland Security Kristi Noem She received a backlash online this week when she posted a video in which she wore a sombrero to a Mexican restaurant and the wait staff sang Happy Birthday to her in Spanish.
In clipPosted on November 29, staff removed the DHS cap from Noem’s head and placed a sombrero on her head. trump administration Instead of official. She claps and laughs and eventually says “thank you” to the staff.
While some of Noem’s followers on Facebook left birthday wishes and praise beneath the video, the secretary’s post was met with anger in other corners of the Internet, where commentators saw the gesture as insensitive and intentionally provocative, a department under Noem’s leadership that has instilled fear among Mexican-American and Spanish-speaking communities across the country. military style exile raid,
TikTok user @edwins.rosary said the video was a reminder of why these are “sad times” Become Hispanic in America Nowand that Noem disliked “everything about that sombrero and the language in which they were singing Happy Birthday”.
“You know very well she’s trying to send a message,” he said in a reaction video. “She’s making fun of everyone the current situation,
“She’s making fun of the people she’s exiled,” said X user Suzie Rizzio. “Why did this restaurant allow him in!”
“I want them all to face the consequences of the atrocities they helped commit, but they won’t,” Reddit user alert-jellyfish wrote about the clip. “This is America.”
Independent The Department of Homeland Security has been contacted for comment.
Donald Trump and his allies reserve special ire for Mexican immigrants in the US
Trump famously launched his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech Many Mexican immigrants are “rapists” and “killers”,” and his signed first-term proposal was Build a wall on the US-Mexico border,
During the second Trump administration, Homeland Security-affiliated agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection have sent masked agents into Spanish-speaking communities across the country to make deportation arrests.
Critics have accused the administration of attendance, use of the Spanish language and certain businesses Racial and cultural profiling of LatinosAnd numerous american citizens Have been swept up in the deportation campaign.
As Independent This has happened in many areas with large Latino populations, the report said. became quiet or noticed a decrease in business and social activity Because residents fear that they will be picked up in administration raids.
The administration’s immigration agenda has also prompted fierce protests, and White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt dismissed They Flying Mexican flags in demonstrations As “leftist radicals” who support “illegal foreign invaders”.