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Noem Confirmed as DHS Secretary

by Robert Spencer

It’s a massive upgrade from Alejandro Mayorkas to Kristi Noem, and now it’s official: the senate voted Saturday to confirm Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. There is now a very real chance that the southern border will be secured, and that the government will take a more realistic approach to national security than it ever came close to doing during the long four years of Old Joe Biden’s misrule.

During her confirmation hearings last week, Noem, who has been governor of South Dakota since 2019, declared: “I was the first governor to send National Guard troops to Texas when they were being overwhelmed by an unprecedented border crisis. If confirmed as secretary, I will ensure that our exceptional, extraordinary border patrol agents have all the tools and resources and support they need to carry out their mission effectively.”

At a hearing three days before President Trump took office, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked Noem if she thought the border was secure. Hawley was not asking Noem simply to affirm the obvious; he was also indirectly calling attention to the outrageous lie that Mayorkas, Old Joe Biden’s DHS secretary, told back in July 2022. “Look, the border is secure,” Mayorkas claimed even as hordes of illegal migrants were strolling into the country unimpeded. “We are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge.”

Noem, by contrast, answered Hawley with the plain truth: Senator, no, the southern border is not secure today. But in just three days, we will have a new president in this country, President Donald J. Trump. And he will secure our border.” And in the week since then, he has already moved decisively to do so, as well as to apprehend and deport the massive numbers of illegal migrants that Old Joe brought into the country.

Noem also said that she would end the CBP One app and another migrant parole program which the Biden regime used in order to release nearly a million and a half migrants inside the U.S. “Yes, Senator,” she told Hawley, “if confirmed and I have the opportunity to be secretary, on day one CBP One will be shut down.”

 

full story at https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/01/25/breaking-noem-confirmed-as-dhs-secretary-n4936357

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