DHS chief Kristi Noem claims cartels have put $10,000 bounties on heads of specific ICE agents

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 05 October 2025 21:17 BST


Individual immigration law enforcement officers and agents in Chicago are being targeted by “gangs” and “cartel members” with bounties of up to $10,000 on their heads, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Sunday.

Protesters in the Windy City have been clashing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agents as they conduct sweeping immigration raids at the direction of President Donald Trump, and against the wishes of Chicago’s mayor and Illinois’s governor.

Noem has condemned protesters and claimed that DHS “intelligence” indicates many are part of organized crime groups seeking to kidnap or kill federal immigration law enforcement agents.

“We have specific officers and agents that have bounties that have been put out on their head,” Noem told Fox & Friends. “It’s been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to kill them, they’ve released their pictures, they’ve sent them between their networks, and it’s an extremely dangerous situation.” Noem claimed “gangs,” “cartel members,” and “known terrorist organizations” are the ones behind the bounties but did not identify specific groups.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-immigration-chicago-cartels-b2839729.html

[IcyPeas]

1. Hey kristi..... you are running the domestic terrorist organization.

Liar

ICE are the ones kidnapping people

ICE are the ones collecting bounties.

[AZJonnie]

3. HEAR, F****** HEAR!!!

It's *always* projection with these assholes

Next she'll be telling us the people who want to attack ICE also like to kill dogs

[popsdenver]

18. If what she says is true

the drug cartels would have offered a bounty of a million bucks......not a paltry 10K............

Just another Propaganda story, to feed into their phony justification to declare Martial Law...............

[AZJonnie]

2. Sure, Jan

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. Well that will surely stop the new law in CA against law enforcement wearing masks.

The timing for these bounties on specific ICE agents sure is convenient. Might the source be Chapo's son who was allowed to come and stay in the USA with the Administration's blessing. Once again, convenient.

[travelingthrulife]

25. Yes, why do we never talk about the cartel family members Trump brought into

this country under cover of night. How much did they have to pay Donnie?

[Buddyzbuddy]

40. There is a reason, yet to be seen.

Otherwise, in my opinion, if it was "just" a bribe, I think they would have taken the money and either arrested him or thrown him out. I suspect it's for far more nefarious reasons. Maybe justifying attacks on cartels within Mexico based on sworn testimony from a cartel member?
These are just my thoughts based upon this Administration's past pattern of behavior.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. "Might the source be" ... no source other than fiction? . . . . nt

[JoseBalow]

5. Cool story

[niyad]

7. hmmmm. .bounties on specific thugs? the masked ones who do not

identify themselves? How does that work? Is puppy killer saying dhs files have been hacked?

[Walleye]

8. Who pays these bounties? How do you collect them?

They are so used to their people making up vague conspiracy theories. They never pin anything down specifically. Show us some of these people, if it’s true, it should be easy to find them and deal with them.

[Javaman]

9. yeah, cool story

[marble falls]

10. But she was saddened when they found out they only offered a nickle and a bike with a flat tire for her.

[truthisfreedom]

11. Those officers and agents now know what it feels like

To be a certain puppy headed to an abandoned rock quarry

[oasis]

12. Kristi openly admits that bounties are a bad thing.

……….

[durablend]

13. Ah but it was okay when

Pictures of the Democratic party members were circulated with targets over then

[mountain grammy]

14. Do you think she knows

She’s full of shit?

[oldinmtdem92]

15. yep

any one with half a brain ,can see the shit is about to get real, I'm old with nothing much to lose, and these guys are really pissing me off.

[DemMedic]

16. Is there a Go Fund Me?

[GusBob]

17. I actually think this is true

And I was anticipating such actions on part of the Cartels

They don’t mess around. 3 people I knew were ambushed in a targeted cartel assassination, 2 died, over a grievance The victims uncle owed the Cartel money and the cartel said pay up or we start killing your family

And don’t “cool story bro” me. It’s ugly and true. March 28th of last year

Perhaps the problem here is when the Admin tells so many lies, one cannot recognize a truth

[nuxvomica]

21. She's conflating actual threats with threats against her thugs

I would expect there to be bounties on some personnel, the ones who are actually working against the bad guys, but she's saying the threats apply to all personnel, including the masked thugs that go around detaining people with no criminal record. The latter are no threat to the bad guys so it's unlikely they would have bounties on their heads.

[travelingthrulife]

26. It is bs. They aren't even going after the cartels, why would they feel threatened?

They are going after regular people, all day, all night.

I don't deny your story, but they are not attacking cartels. Puppy Killer just wants you to believe they are.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. No, it's fiction. Price would either be zero (glory in gang) or twenty times as much.

In any case, kidnapping is much riskier, re evidence trail, for a gang than murder.

[maxsolomon]

43. Being in debt to a Cartel is not the same as being an ICE Agent.

It's not impossible that there are Cartel bounties for ICE Agents, sure. I'm skeptical simply because Noem said it and she's a pathological liar.

Where did your acquaintances get ambushed? In Mexico?

[Botany]

19. Pure gas lighting just like her Oscar winning performance in the movie, "I Gotta Pee."

That was so phony and staged it was ridiculous. Having a film crew with a narrator go along with her
as she made a piss stop at a local police station? Please. She and her people knew what the answer
was going to be before she went to the door. Why didn’t she pee in the ICE building she was in or in
one of the many fast food restaurants that were near by? Or why didn’t one of her people call up the
police station 1st?

And the Academy Award also goes for the writing for the film, “I Gotta Pee.”
“Governor Pritzker is at fault because he is so uncooperative.”
“We were out on an operation to round up gang and cartel members.”

Pure Kabuki theater. Just like Nome’s lie about the 10 K being paid by cartels to hurt ICE agents.

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Maybe Noem IS the pee tapes?

[Botany]

36. Noem on the Range "pit stop" for either #1 or #2 was a staged photo op by a right wing instigator, Benny ...

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… Johnson. Who doesn’t take a long a film crew, a narrator, somebody pretending to be a reporter,
and @ least half a dozen people in an entourage to take a pee and or a dump? I would not be surprised
if the person who told her she couldn’t come into the building was paid off too. Noem is a cabinet
member and one phone call from one of her people to the chief of police @ that building and she
would have gotten right in no problems although a back or side door might have been used. And
how does she know that “the cartels” are paying 10 K to people who assault ICE agents? What did
they have a cartel zoom meeting about ICE agents in Chicago?

BTW I guess “cartels” are the new ANTIFA or left wing domestic terrorists.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. Cartels is code for international gangs. magas claim cartels own half of Arizona and control the Democrats there. . . nt

[azureblue]

20. of course she lies

she always lies. She is trying to make it illegal to doxx ICE thugs.

[Clouds Passing]

22. She relies on Q+ for her "facts"

[karynnj]

23. So, exactly how many ICE agents have been killed or kidnapped in Chicago?

There would have been news reports, so the answer is ZERO. Given the large number of peaceful protestors who outnumber ICE if they were really terrorists, is that likely?

Meanwhile they are attacking people in their apartments. The stories of sweeping up everyone, including children, who they zip tied, show who the aggressors are.

Trump actually said the quiet part before the military. He wants them to use our cities as training grounds. I know family from Chicago and this is NOT the America we grew up in.

[travelingthrulife]

27. Another question: Exactly how many real cartel members have been arrested?

These ICE cowards seem to never go into the more gnarly areas of town.

[travelingthrulife]

24. Puppy Killer...lying again...must be a day ending in 'y'

You put a bounty on the heads of every single US citizen.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. 1) No evidence, 2) Realistically prices are ridiculously low, hence obviously fake. But Noem is stupid. . . . . nt

[-misanthroptimist]

32. "Kristi Noem claims"

Those words should always be regarded with skepticism -or outright rejection if one wants to save time.

She lies, often and easily.

[Jilly_in_VA]

33. Ha

Haha. Hahaha. Repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseam, &c, &m, or however long you want to go on. ICE Barbie is lying again.

[EarthFirst]

34. Is that the reason why they avoid the high crime areas in these metro regions?

…and heavily target tourist and residential neighborhoods

Safer that way?

/sarcasm

[Midnight Writer]

35. The same old Republican playbook. Remember Dick Cheney saying that there are millions of Muslims

in this country willing to die themselves in order to kill Americans?

Of course, if this was true, we would have seen millions of dead Americans.

Which we did not.

[republianmushroom]

37. Noem has learned to lie as much as trump does.

One does reap what one sows.

[Linda ladeewolf]

38. I'm sure the cartels are thanking her for the idea.

I wonder if they will make her wish come true? Will they put her at the top of the list?

I know they (the cartels) probably don’t care about the immigrants any more than gnome does but they might enjoy it anyway.

[Mysterian]

39. Noem is a liar and guilty of crimes against the American people

She will be held accountable when the rule of law is re-established in this country.

[kacekwl]

42. Where do I chip in to

Make the bounty one Million dollars ?