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President-elect Trump connected Wednesday announced helium has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
A root acquainted confirmed the quality earlier Tuesday to The Hill. Trump made it authoritative successful an announcement aboriginal that day.
"Kristi has been precise beardown connected Border Security," Trump said successful a statement. "She volition enactment intimately with 'Border Czar' Tom Homan to unafraid the Border, and volition warrant that our American Homeland is unafraid from our adversaries."
Noem was antecedently floated arsenic a possible moving mate for Trump, but her information fizzled aft the merchandise of her autobiography, successful which she described having killed a dog that was “untrainable.”
Instead, the Republican politician is tapped to pb the sprawling bureau tasked with protecting the U.S from panic threats, securing the borders and enforcing U.S. migration law. Trump has besides tasked DHS with carrying retired the “largest deportation cognition successful American history.”
The prime of Noem is the latest motion of Trump's volition to instrumentality a hard enactment connected migration policy, with an docket helium has said volition correspond the largest deportation successful U.S. history.
If confirmed, Noem would enactment intimately with Stephen Miller, whom Trump tapped to serve arsenic his lawman main of unit for policy. Miller was instrumental successful shaping galore of Trump's toughest migration policies successful his archetypal term.
Trump besides selected Tom Homan arsenic his "border czar," welcoming backmost an aboriginal proponent of kid separation nether the archetypal Trump medication who, successful discussing the forthcoming Trump administration's migration plans, precocious said “families tin beryllium deported together.”
Noem has small nationalist information experience, but she did nonstop the South Dakota National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico borderline and has been vocal connected migration issues.
“South Dakota won't beryllium taking immoderate amerciable immigrants that the Biden Administration wants to relocate. My connection to amerciable immigrants... telephone maine erstwhile you're an American,” Noem wrote connected societal level X successful 2021, soon aft President Biden took office.
She besides supported Trump’s Muslim question prohibition portion serving arsenic a subordinate of Congress and besides supported pausing immoderate exile screening.
"I stock the President's concerns astir our quality to surface refugees—especially those from violent hotbed areas," Noem said successful 2017. "I enactment putting a impermanent intermission connected accepting refugees from terrorist-held areas—at slightest until the medication tin certify that asylum-seekers bash not contiguous a information menace to the U.S."
Noem was besides antecedently floated arsenic a imaginable Interior secretary.
“I emotion being Governor of South Dakota, and President Trump knows that I’ll assistance him nevertheless I can,” Noem said astatine the time.
Noem was a regular with Trump connected the run trail, including astatine 1 lawsuit that turned into a music listening session aft aggregate aesculapian emergencies among attendees.
DHS contains a fig of cardinal nationalist information agencies. Beyond its migration duties, it besides contains the Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
It besides contains the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is tasked with helping companies forestall cyberattacks arsenic good arsenic attacks connected carnal infrastructure.
The Hill has reached retired to the Trump run for comment.
Brett Samuels contributed.
Updated astatine 7:50 p.m. EST
