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Senate voted on Saturday morning to confirm Christie Noem as Secretary of Land Security, President Christman President Donald Trump, and was ready to play a central role in suppressing the promised immigration of the president. We have set up a long -standing Trump alliance to steer the distributor.
The voting was 59-34, and Noem was sworn in the second half of Saturday.
NOEM has been the Governor of South Dakota since 2019, is a former member of the Diet and a 4th member of the Diet. She is currently responsible for the major national security, which is a vast Ministry of Land Security, which supervises institutions such as US customs border security, immigration customs executing agencies, federal emergency management bureaus, and US secret services.
In a statement after the voting on Saturday, Noem stated that it would secure the southern border and fix our broken immigration system.
“I work every day to keep all Americans safe and secure. One of my top priority is to secure the southern border and correct the broken immigration system. Nohem states that President Trump’s duties. ”
“The Trump administration will work with brave men and women in the law enforcement agencies, and will give power to eliminate criminal foreigners and illegal gangs from our country,” continued. 。
Trump declares a state emergency at the southern US border, and has taken a series of drastic immigration actions, including kicking off the process of ending the gorgeous citizenship. I started.
In addition to immigrants, NOEM has dealt with various other issues during the confirmation hearing. In response to questions from the Democratic Party, she focuses on domestic terrorism, saying that “there is no political prejudice” for disaster relief, “there is no political prejudice.” He said he had to do it. A fatal New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans was called a “terrible event.”
NOEM’s nationwide profile has grown between COVID-19 pandemic. She refused to delegate the mask and the social distance, and was once thought that Trump to regain the White House was a potential running companion.
However, after publishing a book last year, Nohm was involved in the debate last year after publishing a book last year that he had shot and killed a family dog, a 14 -month -old wire hair pointer in a gravel hole. I noticed. “I can’t train”, “It was dangerous for the person she contacted.”
Noem defended her actions and argued that their anecdote intended to show whether they could do more terrible work in their lives.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry posted a photo to Noem X, who was sworned by the Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas on Saturday. The JD VANCE office told reporters that Vice President did not participate in the “schedule conflict.”
This story has been updated in a new report.
CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez, Eric Bradner, and Kaitlan Collins have contributed to this report.
