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Kristi Noem: “One in three Americans know someone that has died from…”

Featuring: Kristi Noem, Republican | Secretary of Homeland Security, Former Governor of South Dakota | National

FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts

Published February 12, 2026 | Video Starts at 28:28

She lost her 20 year old son Caleb and 18 year old Kyler to fentanyl poisoning on the same day in 2020. There's far too many stories of that happening. In fact, One in three Americans know someone that has died from fentanyl poisoning. That shouldn't happen in the greatest country on earth. And President Trump gets up every single day to make sure that it doesn't happen. (28:28–28:33)

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Asserts that one-third of Americans know someone who has died from fentanyl poisoning.

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Kristi Noem

“For nine straight months, U.S. border Patrol has released zero illegal aliens into the United States.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 26:15-26:22
“Southern border apprehensions were much lower than during the Biden administration. In fact, 93% lower than during that administration.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 26:25-26:33
“That vault holds more than 1.67 billion lethal doses of narcotics of fentanyl and cocaine.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 27:04-27:13
“President Trump took action and designated [the cartels] as foreign terrorist organizations on day one.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 28:59-29:06
“ICE officers and CBP officers are facing a 1,300% increase in assaults against them.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 30:07-30:23
“A 3,200% increase in vehicular attacks against [ICE and CBP officers].”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 30:14-30:19
“An 8,000% increase in death threats against [ICE and CBP officers].”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 30:18-30:23
“President Trump has cut off the flow of trafficking down at the southern border.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 26:33-26:38
“We've seen a decrease of 56% percent drop in fentanyl coming into this country.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 26:38-26:45
“The vault that we've toured today holds 188,218 pounds of seized illicit drugs.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 26:44-26:54
“That inventory includes over 100,000 pounds of meth, 59,000 pounds of cocaine, and 7,400 pounds of fentanyl.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 26:53-27:03
“The vast majority of these drug seizures happen at the port of entry and the majority of drug seizures along the southern border happen at…”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 27:22-27:32
“ICE has lodged detainers on over 33,000 criminal illegal aliens [in California prisons and jails].”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 29:21-29:31
“Governor Newsom and California sanctuary policies have released over 4,500 criminal illegal aliens back onto the streets.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 29:36-29:46
“That attack was the seventh recorded assault on a Border Patrol agent in San Diego since October.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 30:39-30:46
“There's 33,000 people that are in California jails that have committed crimes against the American people.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 36:42-36:49
“We fund the Secret Service. The Secret Service has a responsibility to protect the most powerful people in the world.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 42:02-42:09
“We also fund the Coast Guard.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 42:08-42:11
“The Coast Guard is out there breaking ice on the Hudson river, the New York harbor, the east river, and keeping that ice, the rivers open so…”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 42:19-42:36
“The Democrat Party doesn't think it's important that people eat or that they stay warm or that our national security is protected.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 42:38-42:45
“The Democratic Party has chosen to shut down the department that was created after 9 11.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 42:46-42:52
“The Department of Homeland Security has the agency that's responsible, responsible for stopping those threats and going after those bad…”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 43:19-43:26
“The Democrat Party is choosing not to fund them and making us very vulnerable to those terrorists being successful here in our homeland.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 43:25-43:34
“We're still working on 287 agreements that would happen with local law enforcement, sheriff, city police.”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 44:14-44:20
“We're going to continue to stay focused with our investigators through the Homeland Security investigations on the fraud that's been going…”
FULL: Kristi Noem at the Border in California, Fentanyl busts | Uploaded February 12, 2026 | 44:29-44:47