It’s just two words. Two words, typed on a social platform once known as Twitter, which now resembles more a marketplace of contempt than a forum for political debate. Two words that feel like a slap in the face – to the Constitution, to the idea of the rule of law, to any shred of decency. Two words: “Suck it.”
Posted by Kristi Noem, current Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States.
What was the context?
A screenshot of a court order. Specifically: the voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit filed by ten individuals – migrants who had sued to stop their planned deportation to Guantánamo Bay. Guantánamo. The place where the U.S. has held people without charges for over two decades, where torture and indefinite detention became policy. The symbol of legal erosion. And this is exactly where a new category of refugees was to be shipped – under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act, a law from the year 1798.
The lawsuit was supported by the ACLU, filed by renowned human rights attorneys, and it was necessary – because what’s happening here isn’t a bureaucratic mishap. It is state ideology. This isn’t about administration – it’s about the deliberate dismantling of every civilizational foundation the modern West once claimed to stand for.
But instead of responding with silence – or humility – Noem tweeted: “Suck it.”
Few things could be more cynical, more vile, more condescending than mocking people whose only “crime” was to flee violence and seek protection. A Cabinet Secretary Who Boasts About Her Own Inhumanity.
Kristi Noem has never shown much interest in restraint. She is the political vanguard of an ideology that refuses to see migrants as human beings – but rather as objects, as scapegoats, as tools for political power. With her post on X, she has now elevated that cruelty to government policy. She celebrates the deportation of human beings into a legal black hole as a personal victory. She doesn’t just disregard international law – she mocks it.
The case she so triumphantly referenced makes it clear: the plaintiffs could no longer pursue their legal claims because they had already been removed from the country. They were, quite literally, pushed outside the reach of the law. And Noem cheers.
Wie eine Siegerin nach einem Kampf, den sie nie geführt hat, aber dessen Blut auf ihrer Rüstung klebt.
Like a victor in a battle she never fought – but whose blood stains her armor nonetheless.
This tweet is not a trivial matter. It is a political document. It marks the moment when a government official publicly celebrates the stripping of rights – not as a necessity, not as administration, but as vengeance against the vulnerable.
It exposes just how deep the moral decay of this administration runs. And how willingly it drops the mask.
Because what remains, when a government begins to revel in its own violence? What remains, when deportations are treated like sporting events, and human rights claimants are mocked like vanquished enemies?
What remains is what Hannah Arendt once called the banality of evil – except here, it is no longer banal. It is deliberate. Engineered. Provoked.
A Nation Betraying Itself
The United States was once mythologized as a refuge for the oppressed. Today, under Kristi Noem, it is a place where the office of Homeland Security is used to celebrate dehumanization.
She could have remained silent. She could have spoken with nuance She could have said, “We’ve reviewed the legal claims, we stand by our policy – but we respect human dignity.”.
Instead, she said: “Suck it.”
Das ist keine politische Position. Das ist keine Rechtfertigung.
That is not a political position. That is not a legal argument.
That is dehumanizing propaganda in its purest form. In a functioning democracy, such a statement would be a reason to resign. In a functioning state governed by law, it would trigger an ethics investigation. In a humane society, it would be a scandal.
But in the United States of 2025, it is reality. And anyone who remains silent becomes complicit. Kristi Noem has said more about this government with those two words than any op-ed ever could: She has declared humanity itself to be an insult.
Sie hat das Menschsein zur Beleidigung erklärt.
Tweet von Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem):
“Suck it”
(literally: “Too bad, I win”)
Court Document Header:
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Maiker Alejandro Espinoza Escalona, et al. (Plaintiffs)
v.
Kristi Noem, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security (Defendant)
Case No. 25-cv-604-CN
Notice of Voluntary Dismissal
Pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the plaintiffs –
Maiker Alejandro Espinoza Escalona, Jackson Manuel Villa Wilhelms, Jorge Alberto Castillo Cerezo, Janfrank Berrios Laguna, Alejandro Jose Pulido Castellanos, Jose de Jesus Teczarí Serbín, Walter Esthef Salazar, Hijram Malik, Ghulah Muhammad, and MD Rayhan (collectively “Plaintiffs”) –
hereby submit their notice of voluntary dismissal of all claims in the above-captioned case, without prejudice.
hiermit die freiwillige Rücknahme ihrer Klage in der oben genannten Rechtssache, ohne Präjudiz.
Since the filing of this case on March 1, 2025, the government has removed Plaintiffs Espinoza Escalona, Villa Wilhelms, Castillo Cerezo, Pulido Castellanos, Esthef Salazar, Muhammad, and Rayhan from the United States, thereby mooting their claims. Plaintiffs Berrios Laguna, Teczarí Serbín, and Malik no longer wish to pursue the case.
Defendants have not filed an answer or motion for summary judgment. Therefore, Plaintiffs voluntarily dismiss this action, without prejudice.
Dated: May 22, 2025
Filed by counsel for the plaintiffs:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Center for Constitutional Rights
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
Context of Kristi Noem’s “Suck it” remark:
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted the phrase “Suck it” in reference to the voluntary dismissal of the lawsuit against her – despite the fact that most plaintiffs had already been deported, leaving no legal grounds for the case to continue.
Her tone has been widely criticized across social media as inappropriate, gloating, and dehumanizing – especially given that these were people facing deportation to a facility like Guantánamo and likely fearing for their lives.
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