Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem crowed Friday after the American Civil Liberties Union dropped one of its myriad lawsuits trying to hinder the government’s deportation efforts.
The ACLU had filed the case for 10 people who said they had feared being shipped from the U.S. to the migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The group moved to dismiss the case this week.
“Suck it,” Ms. Noem said in a social media post which included the court filing asking the judge to nix the case.
Homeland Security had told the judge that of the 10, seven have already been deported. And the three others stand little chance of being sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Those three “no longer wish to continue litigating this case,” Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lawyer, said in a filing dismissing the case.
The ACLU says it has litigated more than 100 cases already against the new Trump administration, with immigration cases heavy in that rotation.
Among those was a challenge to the high-profile deportation of a mother who opted to take her 2-year-old U.S. citizen child with her.
That case drew attention, but Homeland Security said it was being wrongly portrayed as deportation of an American citizen kid when, in fact, it was the mother who made the decision for the child to go with her.
That case was also dropped.
Ms. Noem’s succinct reaction on social media proved deeply divisive. Some fans hailed her bluntness while detractors questioned her professionalism.
