DHS Has A Numbers Problem

A combination of low-level arrests, huge spending, and plummeting polling numbers doesn't add up to success for the Trump Admin's signature policy

The Department of Homeland Security has a problem with numbers—or, better put, it has problems with lots of numbers.

For weeks, the agency, led by former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, has been making tens of thousands of arrests, spending money with reckless abandon, and lying about the statistics used to justify the first two things. All of it is happening as the public’s perception of the flagship department of the second Trump administration is tanking.

Let’s take these things by the numbers.