Kristi Noem hired Sheahan straight out of Ohio State, getting her plum appointments in government she had no qualifications for, like being named Director of Wildlife and Fisheries in Louisiana on Noem’s recommendation to Governor Jeff Landry at age 26, finally making her Deputy Director of ICE earlier this year. Like Noem, she has no background in law enforcement at all.
“I absolutely think I’m qualified for the job. Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?” Spoken in true MAGA fashion.
Source: New York Magazine
Another of Noem’s deputies is Madison Sheahan, 28, who just six years ago was the captain of the rowing team at Ohio State University and who now is the deputy director of ICE. “For the most part, every entity in ICE reports to me,” Sheahan told me in an interview at ICE headquarters in southwest Washington. Sheahan is broad-shouldered with a punishing handshake. She told me she doesn’t sweat the controversial parts of her job. “I understand that everyone wants to poke holes and say we aren’t perfect, and we aren’t,” she said. “But we’ll never know how much ICE prevented — the number of kids that we’ve saved and families that we’ve saved.”
