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    Trump picks South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for Homeland Security

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    WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump has selected Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, as his secretary of homeland security. He has chosen another loyalist to head an agency at the center of his efforts to tackle the number of immigrants entering the country without permission.

    In a statement Tuesday evening, Trump praised Noem for deploying her state’s National Guard to the southern border. He said she would work closely with his newly appointed “border czar” to secure the southern border of the United States.

    Homeland Security’s position requires Senate confirmation. Trump’s announcement is an indication that he plans to nominate Noem for Senate confirmation.

    Noem said in a statement that she was “honored and humbled” by the appointment. “I look forward to working with Border Czar Tom Homan to make America safe again,” she wrote. “With Donald Trump, we will secure the border and restore safety to American communities so that families once again have the opportunity to pursue the American Dream.”

    Noem, a close Trump ally who was once considered to be his running mate and joined him on the 2024 campaign trail, served as a South Dakota congressman from 2011 to 2019. She was elected the state’s first female governor in 2018 and was re-elected. in 2022.

    Her appointment as secretary of homeland security will give her a central role in curbing the flow of migrants across the country’s southern border. Illegal border crossings have been a focus of Trump’s campaign, even as migrant apprehensions have fallen from a year ago.

    Noem’s appointment comes as Trump has tapped two other conservative hardliners to oversee his long-promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. Homan, a former Border Patrol agent who led Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was portrayed as a “border czar.” Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s top immigration advisers, will serve as deputy chief of staff for policy in the White House.

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    Noem, 52, a farmer and small business owner, was briefly considered as Trump’s vice presidential running mate earlier this year. But her bid quickly crumbled amid a public backlash after Noem acknowledged in a memoir earlier this year that she shot and killed her dog Cricket because he was “untrainable.”

    Noem also claimed in her memoir, “No Going Back,” that she met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while serving as a state representative in Congress. Noem wrote that Kim underestimated her, “because I had no idea about my experience staring down little tyrants (I had been a children’s pastor, after all).”

    But the anecdote was false. Noem’s spokesman said Kim was incorrectly included on a list of world leaders she had met with and that the anecdote would be removed in subsequent printings.

    As governor of South Dakota, Noem pushed a conservative agenda, including signing an abortion law that banned the procedure — except when a mother’s life is in danger — when the Supreme Court in 2022 upheld Roe v. Wade and a constitutional right to abortion destroyed. .

    All nine Native American tribes in South Dakota excluded Noem from reservations this year after the governor made comments accusing tribal leaders of profiting from drug cartels.

    Earlier this year, Republicans in the House of Representatives impeached President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, over his handling of border security, arguing that he had deliberately and willfully allowed the migration crisis at the southern border to escalate. reached an extreme state. Voting largely along party lines, the House approved two articles of impeachment: one accusing Mayorkas of “willful and systematic failure to comply with the law” and another accusing him of “breaching the public trust.”

    The Senate annulled both articles in April.

    Reach Joey Garrison at X, formerly Twitter, @joeygarrison.

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