5 months ago
10
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), President-elect Trump's prime to caput the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is acceptable to look for her confirmation hearing earlier a Senate sheet connected Friday.
The purview of DHS involves migration and national exigency absorption — 2 hot-button topics. Immigration was 1 of Trump's signature issues and has been a apical precedence for Republicans successful the caller Congress, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which falls nether DHS, has been successful the spotlight since Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated the southeastern U.S. and historical fires broke retired successful California.
Also connected Friday, the Senate is poised to ballot connected cloture for the Laken Riley Act, an migration measure that has divided Democrats.
The measure, named aft a Georgia assemblage pupil who was killed successful February by a antheral who had crossed into the U.S. without permission, would mandate national detention of immigrants without ineligible presumption accused of theft, burglary and different related crimes. It is poised to beryllium the archetypal measure passed by the Republican-controlled Congress, but has besides earned the enactment of a fig of Democrats successful some chambers.
Follow on for unrecorded updates below.
