South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks previous to remarks from then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a marketing campaign rally March 16 in Vandalia, Ohio.
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President-elect Donald Trump has introduced he’ll nominate South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to guide the Division of Homeland Safety.
It is a position that holds important weight for Trump, who campaigned closely on the difficulty of immigration, pledging to hold out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
Mentioned Trump in a press release: “She’s going to work carefully with ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan to safe the Border, and can assure that our American Homeland is safe from our adversaries.” Homan is the previous head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Trump loyalist Stephen Miller is anticipated to be deputy chief of staff and concentrate on immigration coverage. Neither Miller nor Homan’s positions require Senate affirmation.
Noem, a religious Christian who’s the primary lady elected to function governor of South Dakota, is in her second time period.
In his assertion, Trump cited one in all her notable strikes main her state: “Kristi has been very robust on Border Safety. She was the primary Governor to ship Nationwide Guard Troopers to assist Texas struggle the Biden Border Disaster, they usually have been despatched a complete of eight occasions.”
CNN first reported she could be Trump’s DHS decide.
Noem converted to politics in 2006 as a state consultant after serving to run her household farm as a small enterprise proprietor. 4 years later, she headed to Washington, D.C., when she gained the state’s at-large seat within the U.S. Home of Representatives.
Earlier than in the end selecting Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump spoke extremely of Noem as he was deliberating his operating mate, saying, “She’s been there for us for a very long time … She’s loyal, she’s nice.”
However Noem drew criticism earlier this 12 months for saying that Native tribes in South Dakota profit from the drug cartel trade — a remark that led her to be banned from all nine reservations within the state.
Moreover, Noem wrote about having met North Korean chief Kim Jong-un in her memoir, No Going Again, which she then retracted from the ultimate copy. In that very same memoir, she wrote about killing her family dog, which drew explicit scorn.
