By Molly Goddard
12:56pm PDT, Mar 28, 2025
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Kristi Noem is bringing the public into an El Salvador prison housing illegal immigrants.
On Wednesday, March 26, the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary took to X to share
footage of herself standing in front of a group of alleged gang members — many partially unclothed — who were detained by ICE under
Donald Trump's administration and flown out of America. Noem, meanwhile, sported jeans, a white long-sleeve T-shirt, a baseball cap and what appeared to be a Rolex worth a whopping $60K.
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"I toured the CECOT, El Salvador's
Terrorism Confinement Center," Kristi Noem captioned the video of herself standing outside a cell full of Salvadoran prisoners.
The former governor of South Dakota gave a stark warning to other people trying to immigrate to the United States illegally under Donald Trump's administration: "President Trump and I have a clear message to criminal illegal aliens: LEAVE NOW. If you do not leave, we will hunt you down, arrest you and you could end up in this El Salvadorian prison," she wrote.
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"This is one of the consequences you could face," Kristi Noem said in the clip — in which the inmates remained silent while she spoke directly to the camera.
"First of all, do not come to our country illegally. You will be removed and you will be prosecuted. But know that this facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people," she continued.
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Kristi Noem apparently accessorized with a gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch worth nearly $60K while shooting a video in front of partially unclothed inmates held within the Terrorism Confinement Center at an infamous high-security prison in El Salvador.
The MeidasTouch Network's X account first identified the timepiece, which the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security also wore during a meeting with Colombia's foreign minister on Thursday, March 27, as reported by the New York Post.Quipped one X user of the Rolex, "Don't hear Elon Musk looking into Kristi Noem's finances when she's wearing a $60,000 watch on a $156,000 salary."
Another X user who identifies as a Republican complained that Noem's team was making her look bad: "Wearing a $50K watch parading in front of [inmates]. Ridiculous," the second X user wrote.
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The
Homeland Security Department confirmed Kristi Noem met and worked with El Salvador's president,
Nayib Bukele, to discuss how America can "increase the number of deportation flights and removals of violent criminals from the U.S."
The United States Embassy in El Salvador issued a statement about the visit from the official, claiming Noem "expressed her gratitude for the Salvadoran government's cooperation in accepting deportation flights."
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Kristi Noem has been giving citizens a front-row seat to the security measures being put in place across the country to combat illegal
immigration, even showing off the construction of Donald Trump's border wall.
"Everybody, I'm here in Arizona and right at this spot, you can see where the border wall ends," she said in a video of the progress. "As of today, we're starting seven new miles of construction, we're going to continue to make America safe again."
