Kristi Noem’s bad week could mean good news for ICE and the country.

The now-former Homeland Security Secretary was grilled by Democrats and some Republicans before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.

On the agenda: the use of administrative warrants in searches by her agency, and whether agents from US Customs and Immigration would be sent to polling places ahead of November’s midterms.

Noem did not acquit herself well. That may have been the final nudge President Trump needed to move her from the Homeland Security post, or her exit could be part of a reset kicked off by the dispatching of border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis in late January. We’re hoping it’s the latter.

The aggressive tactics used by some ICE agents there gave the agency a black eye, and gave progressive Democrats carte blanche to slam the very concept of immigration law.

It didn’t help that an ICE whistleblower accused the agency of lying about shortchanging its training, including legal training over whether they are permitted to use deadly force, amid a hiring surge of new officers, according to The Hill.

Ryan Schwank, a former lawyer for ICE, said training for new officers has been pared down to the point where it is “deficient, defective and broken” during a forum organized by congressional Democrats about “constitutional violations and abuses” within ICE policies. He accused ICE leaders of shielding training shortcuts from the public.

Trump said he would nominate Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin to Noem’s former post.

Mullin has his work cut out for him, if his nomination is approved. He’s essentially fighting a battle on two fronts: against criminal illegal immigrants who’ve crossed our border to traffic drugs, sexually assault women and children, and ply their trade within gangs. The other is against sanctuary cities who see these crimes as secondary concerns and immigration law enforcement as an affront.

ICE agents did the agency no favors in Minneapolis, and the fallout continues.

Massachusetts lawmakers on the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security heard testimony Wednesday at a forum on the Protect Act (H. 5158), filed by the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, that would ban federal immigration officials from making civil arrests in Massachusetts courthouses, among other measures.

Representatives from Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s Office and some politicians, in supporting the bill, accused President Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown of being “predicated on actual white supremacy.”

ICE was referred to as the “secret police” by state Sen. Liz Miranda. State Rep. Steve Xiarhos, however, pushed back against Deputy Attorney General Abby Taylor in her criticisms of the agency.

“You didn’t mention arresting murderers, rapists, and the people that are violent. And I think that we all agree they should be arrested and follow the law,” said Xiarhos.

We shouldn’t have to have these hearings: states and cities should follow the law, even if they don’t agree with it. And ICE agents should be well-trained in de-escalating combustible situations.

Hopefully, a new Homeland Security Secretary will set the mission on a better course.