At confirmation hearing, the South Dakota governor cited an ‘invasion’ of migrants even as illegal crossings have fallen sharply
President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is appearing for her confirmation hearing before a Senate panel Friday. The purview of DHS involves immigration and federal emergency management — two hot-button topics.
Kristi Noem used her confirmation hearing to excoriate work done by DHS during the Biden administration and said big changes are coming.
President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security will face her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, where illegal immigration is likely to be a top topic.
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is expected to cruise through the process to confirmation after surviving a fairly quiet hearing that lasted less than three hours.
Noem's role as Homeland Security secretary is expected to be more limited in scope than her predecessors’, sources familiar with the Trump transition tell NBC News.
Kristi Noem wants to "refocus" the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on critical infrastructure.
Kristi Noem, the firebrand South Dakota governor is set to go before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs for her confirmation hearing to be the Secretary of Homeland Security. Noem, the daughter of a farmer, is a former Congresswoman from South Dakota who ran for Governor in 2018.
In December, the number of migrant encounters by Border Patrol along the Southwest border dropped to about 47,300 — the lowest since August 2020
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be the next Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, promised to shut down on her first day in office CBP One, an app used by migrants to legally request asylum from outside the U.S.
Separately in the hearing, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) claimed Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary under President Joe Biden, had “allowed” around 400 people on the terrorism watch list, formally known as the “terrorist screening data set,” to “come into this country illegally.” Noem cited similar figures.