By Katherine Tinsley
10:57am PDT, Jun 14, 2025
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"ICE Barbie"
Kristi Noem geared up to join an ICE raid in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 12.
"DON'T TRY THIS AT NOEM," the Department of Homeland Security captioned
a series of photos of the former Governor of South Dakota collaborating with ICE agents while clad in a bulletproof vest, jeans and a DHS baseball cap.
The raid saw Noem attempting to conduct
a deportation at a home occupied by a 28-year-old pregnant mother of four in Huntington Park, Calif.
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Sabrina Medina was reportedly showering when her brother-in-law noticed that ICE agents — Kristi Noem among them — had gathered outside her home in Los Angeles County on Thursday, June 12.
"I was just terrified, I'm not going to lie to you," Medina told
KTLA. "I was shaking. I was scared. I've never gone through anything like this."
"I was like, 'Am I dreaming or is this real?'" she said.
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Sabrina Medina, who is an American citizen, saw 10 masked men in military garb with rifles outside her home.
Medina claimed she was told to come outside with her children, as the ICE agents had a warrant for her husband's arrest. She told them he wasn't home.
ICE agents — who allegedly moved a home surveillance camera so it couldn't capture the raid — searched the home room by room while Kristi Noem supervised from the street.
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Kristi Noem and her crew of ICE agents ultimately left the home in Huntington Park, Calif., empty-handed after they were unable to apprehend Sabrina Medina's husband, whom the agency described as "an illegal alien from Mexico who had previously been deported" and whose "criminal history includes drug trafficking and assault."
Medina shared that supporting her household without her husband's help will be a challenge if he gets deported: "I'm not going to be able to pay my rent when I have to pay it," she said. "My husband is not here. I don't know if they're going to pick him up tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. It's sad."
She added that if her husband is ultimately deported, she and the children will follow him to Mexico — even though she's a U.S. citizen. (Presumably their kids were born in the United States.)
