The US Senate confirms Kristo Noem as the Minister of Homeland Security | News about politics
Noem assumes responsibility for a widespread agency dealing with a series of key issues such as immigration and customs.
The US Senate confirmed Kristo Noem as the Minister of Homeland Security, placing the Governor of South Dakota at the helm of the key agency in Donald Trump’s President Donald Trump to break up irregular immigration.
Legislators voted 59-34 on Saturday to confirm that Noem, who became the fourth person in the administration to get the green light after Pete Hegsetth as Minister of DefenseSenator Marco Rubio as State Secretary, and John Ratcliffe as the director of the CIA Spy Agency.
Since 2019, Noem has been the first female governor of South Dakota and is a four -time congress woman. Will now run the Ministry of Internal Security, which overseas the immigrationCustoms, emergency management and security service.
“We need to secure our limits against illegal trade and immigration. We need to protect our critical infrastructure to make sure that we are protected from Cyber -afterwards, answers to natural disasters and also terrorism, “he told Noem senators during his certificate hearing.
“The extraction of criminal foreigners from our streets and outside the country will help US communities be safer,” she said.
Noem said her focus would be directed at “domestic terrorism”, and promised that there would be no “political bias” when managing disasters.
The longtime Trump ally, the new secretary assumes a duty in the midst of a series of excellent immigration executive actions of the President, which so far included the proclamation of national emergency on the US southern border and began the procedure for the completion of citizenship.
During the Coid-19 pandemic, she rejected mask mandates and social distance. Trump had previously praised her for sending her troops of the National Guard to the border of the US-Mexico.
It remains to be seen that her role will act in the tandem with the role of the “border emperor”, who gave Tom Homan, who acted as points to discuss Trump’s immigration.
Homan emphasized that immigration and customs duties will be reinforced so that it could carry out attacks against unfathomable immigrants across the country.
