About this episode

The episode discusses the controversial tenure of Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security and features interviews with experts on immigration and identity.

Kristi Noem, the controversial Secretary of Homeland Security, was fired from her position in March of 2026. Her short tenure as secretary was marked by numerous accusations of overreach of power, violations of due process particularly with regard to immigrants without proper documentation, and killing of protesters, notably in Minnesota, at the hands of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. On today’s show we will review Secretary Noem’s tenure at the Department and the future of ICE and the immigration raids she instituted. [ dur: 35mins. ] Naomi Paik is Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II , winner, Best Book in History. Luke William Hunt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama. He is the author of The Police Identity Crisis — Hero, Warrior, Guardian, Algorithm and Police Deception and Dishonesty – The Logic of Lying . How does immigration and the border define identity and belonging…

People in this episode

Guests: Naomi Paik, Luke William Hunt, Hiroshi Motomura

Topics covered

• US immigration policy
• policing immigrants
• identity and belonging
• ICE
• Secretary of Homeland Security
• immigration raids
• academic perspectives on immigration

Keywords

• Kristi Noem
• immigration policy
• ICE
• policing
• identity
• belonging
• Naomi Paik
• Luke William Hunt
• Hiroshi Motomura

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Books & works: Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century, Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II, The Police Identity Crisis — Hero, Warrior, Guardian, Algorithm, Police Deception and Dishonesty – The Logic of Lying, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration

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