Noem defends raid on California marijuana farm, vows no amnesty

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended an immigration raid last week on a California marijuana farm where protesters clashed with federal officers.

Authorities arrested about 360 people across two farms owned by the same company.

“We will go places where we know there are known criminals, where we’ve built a case to go get those individuals,” Noem said during an appearance at the Hill Nation Summit.

One worker fell from a greenhouse roof during the Camarillo raid and later died from their injuries.

Noem separately said the Trump administration might not spend all of the money allocated to it to build a wall on the southern border. That funding was included in the massive "big, beautiful bill" by Congress earlier this month.

She said the funding might not need to be spent given the significant drop in border-crossing numbers since President Trump came into office.

“Maybe you don’t need all that money for the wall because we’ve done such a great job securing the border. We’ll look at all of that,” Noem told NewsNation’s Blake Burman.

Noem generally took a firm line on immigration, saying there would "never be amnesty" under Trump. That appeared to be a nod to calls from the agriculture industry for shifts in the administration's approach given its need for migrant workers.

Noem said her department would help people self-deport and then let them re-enter the United States the right way.