Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security promised “the peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world” in the agency’s New Year’s Eve message imagining the removal of 100 million people from the country. Attached to the post on the agency’s X account was a painting from Hiroshi Nagai’s Beachcomber series, showing a classic American car parked on the beach as a massive wave hurls towards the shore. The agency also added text to the image: “America After 100 Million Deportations.” The administration’s outrageous suggestion that nearly one-third of a country made up of more than 340 million...