{"id":23178,"date":"2025-12-09T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=23178"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:17:19","slug":"ice-queen-kristi-noem-feiert-geburtstag-im-mexikanischen-restaurant-und-ganz-watertown-haelt-den-atem-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/ice-queen-kristi-noem-feiert-geburtstag-im-mexikanischen-restaurant-und-ganz-watertown-haelt-den-atem-an\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE-Queen Kristi Noem celebrates her birthday in a Mexican restaurant - and all of Watertown holds its breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the head of the country's largest deportation machine sits laughing in a Mexican restaurant, wearing a pink sombrero on her head and applauding \u201cFeliz cumplea\u00f1os\u201d, it is not a scandal but a snapshot of the political schizophrenia of this government. Kristi Noem, the woman who for months has ensured with stoic severity that families are torn apart, children moved into detention centers and people imprisoned without any accusation, suddenly sits in the very place where her agency usually knocks on the door. And in front of her are employees who presumably check before every workday whether someone from their team will disappear again today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignwide\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 612 \/ 360;\" width=\"612\" controls src=\"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/orlando-126.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Every comment on this would be worthless<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The restaurant owner of Watertown likely pretended to have the calmest pulse of his life that evening. Internally, he probably prayed that no one from his kitchen would be loaded into a van during a \u201croutine check\u201d. It is hard to decide what was more dangerous: the sharp knife of a cook or the possibility that Noem might order a \u201chot raspberry ice raid\u201d for dessert. The sombrero may have been pink, but for many in the room a gray shadow hung over the scene. While she applauded with a smile, the reality she is responsible for raged outside: people who live in the same country as she does, but with the constant feeling that the next blow from above is coming. They are exactly the ones Noem exploits politically, the ones used for headlines, the ones who disappear into statistics. And now they are supposed to watch her enjoy her birthday cake in the style of the very culture whose members she has placed in shackles every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kaizen-Blog-2025-10-25T131354.408.webp?resize=640%2C354&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kaizen-Blog-2025-10-25T131354.408.webp?w=905&amp;ssl=1 905w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kaizen-Blog-2025-10-25T131354.408.webp?resize=18%2C10&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kaizen-Blog-2025-10-25T131354.408.webp?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/batch_Kopie-von-Kopie-von-Kaizen-Blog-2025-10-25T131354.408.webp?resize=768%2C424&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>We know these operations live all too well and how that feels.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The question arises of how one can celebrate among the very people one is also persecuting. But perhaps that is precisely the perfect image for this government: Eat the culture, deport the people. Salsa yes, residence permit no. \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d in Spanish always works - as long as it is not about the rights of those who sing it. One can easily imagine the scene: the waiter raising his voice while his thoughts consist of just one sentence: \u201cPlease just let me go home today.\u201d The grandchild who cannot help that his grandmother spreads more fear than any menu with hot sauce. And Kristi Noem, looking contentedly into the camera as if it were all an expression of \u201cGod\u2019s blessings\u201d, as she later wrote. For others, blessings only count as long as they do not end up in the back seat of an ICE or DHS vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/batch_kaizennewsday-2025-11-28T133912.224-1.webp?resize=640%2C354&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/batch_kaizennewsday-2025-11-28T133912.224-1.webp?w=905&amp;ssl=1 905w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/batch_kaizennewsday-2025-11-28T133912.224-1.webp?resize=18%2C10&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/batch_kaizennewsday-2025-11-28T133912.224-1.webp?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/batch_kaizennewsday-2025-11-28T133912.224-1.webp?resize=768%2C424&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Tear gas against people at the hands of ICE who have done nothing<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The greatest irony, however, remains: not a single person in this restaurant has ever needed Kristi Noem as much as all those she addresses in her speeches with an uplifted finger. Maybe that is the true reason for the pink sombrero - a color code between ignorance and self-satisfaction. Or simply the symbol of a politician who likes Mexico on her plate but not in her immigration statistics. 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