Kristi Noem Slips Up With Awkward Typo In Heated Post About Immigrants In Minneapolis

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem accused immigrants in Minneapolis of spurring terror in the city in a heated rant Monday on social media, but in her haste to attack them online, she publicly stumbled over her spelling.

In an X post Monday, Noem claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has “arrested over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans“ and “hurting children.”

She then alleged that immigrants were “reigning terror in Minneapolis,” but she appeared to mix up the words “reigning,” which means to rule over something, with “raining” terror as in causing a state of destructive intent.

Noem went on to accuse Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of refusing to “protect their own people” by instead protecting criminals.

“In the last 6 weeks, our brave DHS law enforcement have arrested 3,000 criminal illegal aliens including vicious murderers, rapists, child pedophiles and incredibly dangerous individuals. A HUGE victory for public safety,” she added.

Noem announced last week that more ICE agents would be deployed to Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.

The GOP White House official’s post comes amid ongoing protests sparked by the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE officer, who was later identified as Jonathan Ross, during an operation in Minneapolis earlier this month.

Noem’s spelling faux pas also follows her tense exchange with CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday, in which she slipped up on live TV by forgetting her own department’s statistics regarding the percentage of immigrants taken into custody by ICE who committed a criminal offense versus a civil infraction.

“Every single individual has committed a crime, but 70% of them have committed or have charges against them on violent crimes, and crimes that they are charged with or have been convicted of that have come from other countries that are here illegally, first of all, and then they have committed a criminal act while they’ve been here or in their home countries as well,” Noem said on “Face the Nation.”

After Brennan swiftly interjected to correct Noem, telling her, “It’s not 70%,” the homeland security secretary argued her down, responding, “Yes, it is. It absolutely is.”

She then attacked the journalist and accused the CBS network of “picking and choosing what numbers” to report on.

“Well, our reporting is 47% based on your agency’s own numbers ― 47% have criminal convictions against them,” Brennan replied, prompting Noem to double down that she was “wrong again.”