Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

In a statement on X, Curtis said officials who rush to conclusions before all the facts are known “undermine public trust and the law-enforcement mission,” distancing himself from Noem’s early Department of Homeland Security response to the incident.

CHICOPEE — U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal has added his voice to calls for the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “What happened over the course of the last week, it’s the mayhem,

I think that what she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying,” Tillis (R-NC) told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Tillis called for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

“She should be out of a job,” Sen. Thom Tillis said. “I think it probably is time for her to step down,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

What started as sharp criticism of the Homeland Security secretary, and a longshot move by Democratic lawmakers signing onto impeachment legislation in the Republican-controlled House, has morphed into an inflection point for Noem, who has been the high-profile face of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement regime.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced rising calls to step down or be fired Wednesday over her handling of President Donald Trump’s Minneapolis immigration crackdown and the killing of Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

WASHINGTON — Eight additional Democrats signed on to an impeachment resolution against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti, bringing the total number of co-sponsors to 120,

More than half of House Democrats back impeaching DHS Secretary Kristi Noem after the deadly Border Patrol shooting that killed nurse Alex Pretti.