President-elect Donald Trump plans to select Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to multiple reports.
Noem is expected to replace outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the people said. CNN and wall street journal. A spokesperson for Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. (Related: President Trump may have stopped large caravan from approaching US border)
The governor envisions DHS, a massive division of hundreds of thousands of employees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other agencies. Her appointment as director places her in a position of vital importance. Members of President Trump’s future immigration policy. The president-elect has promised to embark on ambitious border security goals, including a massive deportation program and a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Nomu will join a hard-line immigration team that is already taking shape. Trump has named former ICE acting director Tom Homan as “border czar” and Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff for policy. Both men previously worked in the first Trump administration and are considered immigration enforcement hawks.
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 16: (L) South Dakota as US President Donald Trump watches during a meeting on the Governors Initiative on Regulatory Reform in the White House Cabinet Office on December 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. Gov. Kristi Noem speaks. . (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Unlike Homan and Miller, Noem would need Senate confirmation to serve in any official capacity. However, Republicans have a 53-seat majority in the Senate, so her nomination is likely to be successful.
President Trump has already established himself as a heavyweight on border security in his first term, completing the U.S.-Mexico border wall, reinstating the Remain in Mexico program and reinstating the travel ban. He vowed to hire more Border Patrol agents. The president-elect also announced many more innovative promises during his campaign, including promises and plans to implement “the largest deportation program in American history.” end Birthright citizenship granted to people born on U.S. soil to illegal immigrant parents.
Noem also positions herself as a hawk on border policy. While she served as a member of Congress; supported As governor, then-President Trump declared a ban on refugee travel from countries with a history of terrorism. unacceptable As refugees flood into South Dakota while the Biden-Harris administration deals with a massive border crisis, she provided personally Provide Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott with razor wire to aid border security operations.
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