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    Trump picks Kristi Noem for Department of Homeland Security

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    President-elect Donald Trump has tapped South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

    Noem will serve as DHS Secretary and oversee several federal organizations responsible for US immigration, including US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, if confirmed. Other agencies in her purview will include the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the US Secret Service.

    CNN first reported on the development early Tuesday, citing two anonymous sources “familiar with the selection.” Several other media outlets also reported on the selection.

    The Argus Leader contacted Noem’s office for confirmation of the cabinet pick on Tuesday morning but did not receive a response.

    The news comes after Trump announced Sunday that Tom Homan, who led aggressive immigration enforcement efforts as ICE director during the president-elect’s last administration, will serve in a “border czar” role .

    Stephen Miller, another immigration partisan, was too named deputy to his policy chief.

    Noem, a longtime Trump loyalist, has been a staunch critic of immigration policy under the Biden-Harris administration. She often refers to the US-Mexico border as a “war zone” and under “invasion” by migrants, and has used the border situation as a reason to send South Dakota National Guard troops to Texas since May many times over the years, with the price. of state funds.

    Noem’s comments on the border also took aim at Native American communities in South Dakota. On Jan. 31, the second-term governor told South Dakota lawmakers that Mexican drug cartels are using the state’s Indian reservations to “facilitate the spread of drugs in the Midwest.”

    Noem also suggested, without evidence, that tribal leaders were “personally benefiting” from the cartels during a March town hall event in Winner. She later asked the tribes to “kick out the cartels” in an April state press release.

    All nine Native American tribes in South Dakota officially approved the exile of Noah from their lands after those comments, as well as statements he made regarding native children during a similar town hall in Mitchell.

    Noem’s relationship with Trump changed for a while after she endured international criticism following reports in the spring about her latest memoir, in which she recounted the personal killing of a 14-month-old hunting dog and a goat that she he owned them after a pheasant hunt in the 2000s. .

    She was once considered a running mate for Trump’s vice presidential pick, which eventually went to Ohio Senator JD Vance.

    This story is developing.

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