President-elect Donald Trump plans to name North Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary in a trio of measures promoting a tough approach to immigration, including mass deportation and cracking down on drug cartels.

Trump announced that Tom Homan, a former immigration official in the first Trump administration, will have a role that the incoming president will call “Border Czar.”

“I’ve known Tom for a long time and there is no one better at policing and controlling our borders,” Trump said. POSTED Sunday evening on social networks. “Likewise, Tom Homan will be responsible for all deportations of illegal aliens back to their country of origin.”

And Trump reportedly tapped Stephen Miller, an immigration opponent, as White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Vice President Elect JD Vance on social networks called the choice “another fantastic choice of president”.

Noem’s choice was reported by The Washington Post, CNN and Fox News. Miller’s selection was reported by The Washington Post and other media. Noem’s nomination would have to be confirmed by the Senate, while Homan’s and Miller’s positions would not.

Noem stands out among the choices because, as governor of South Dakota, he didn’t have a role with a focus on immigration or even serve as chief executive of a state along the border. However, Noem has been a voice for a tough policy on immigration, consistent with Trump’s approach on the campaign trail.

On the eve of Election Day, Noem sounded the alarm at a Trump campaign event in Michigan about the Biden administration’s border policies and the potential continuation of that approach under a Kamala Harris presidency, according to a report in the Michigan Advance.

“Kamala Harris allowed 13,000 criminals into this country, 16,000 rapists into this country just by facilitating that open border,” Noem said. “Just think about your county and how small it is in your community of people, that there are four more criminals living right there in your community, that’s the average across the country.”

In February, Noem convened a joint session of the South Dakota State Legislature to deliver a speech on immigration, promising to send material and personnel assistance to border states, including razor wire to be used on U.S. border barriers and Mexico.

“The United States of America is in a period of invasion,” Noem said at the time. “The invasion is coming across our southern border. The 50 states have a common enemy, and that enemy is the Mexican drug cartels. They are waging war against our nation, and these cartels are perpetuating violence in every one of our states, even here in South Dakota.”

The other two picks, Miller and Homan, have well-established reputations for tough approaches on immigration, including their work in leading roles during Trump’s first term.

Homan has earned a reputation as a fierce defender of Trump’s immigration policies as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as evidenced by exchanges of fire with members of Congress, including an exchange now airing on widely online, in which he rejected tough questions from the representative. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y.

In an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday morning, Homan said Trump’s approach will be “really the same as it was during the first administration, except a lot more of them, because 10 million people came into this country illegally country under the Biden administration.”

Homan said the mass deportation scheme would have “threats to public safety and threats to national security” as the top priority for removal, which he suggested would include migrants who have been ordered deported by immigration judges but have remained in the United States.

Homan said workplace raids “need to happen”, arguing they are a major source of sex and forced labor trafficking.

“The Biden administration at one point shut down jobs to say we care about sex trafficking and human trafficking, and then shut down enforcement in the workplace, which is one of the main areas where we find victims of this.” , Homan said.

Homan identified as another priority the more than 300,000 children he said were considered migrants and “smuggled into this country by criminal cartels they can’t find,” many in forced labor or sex trafficking.

Miller is credited with being a major architect of Trump’s immigration policy in Trump’s first term, including the widely criticized family separation policy as a punitive measure for border crossing. Since then, he has run America First Legal, a law firm that handles cases consistent with conservative views, including claims of anti-white racism and exaggerated claims by non-citizens who vote in US elections.

During a high-profile rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden in the final days before the 2024 election, Miller laid out his vision for immigration policy during Trump’s second term, according to a report from ABC News.

“Who’s going to stand up and say the cartels are gone, the criminal migrants are gone, the gangs are gone,” Miller said. “America is for Americans and for Americans only.”