Noem said some non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which receive millions in federal grants, have been facilitating illegal immigration by helping aliens cross the U.S. border.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined federal agents in New York City to announce the arrests of immigrants wanted on criminal charges.

The two term South Dakota Gov. was tapped by Trump in November and will be key in enacting the new president's mass deportation plan.

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem will be the nation’s next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination Saturday. The 53-year-old Noem, a former congresswoman,

Noem touched down at a small airport in the Northeast Kingdom in the same town where a border patrol agent was killed last week.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited an area known as the Swanton Sector along the northern border on Thursday. That section covers New Hampshire's border with Canada, as well as Vermont and parts of New York. The visit comes just over a week after a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed in Vermont.

Kristi Noem was confirmed Saturday morning as the new U.S. secretary of Homeland Security by a 59-34 vote. The 53-year-old former governor of South Dakota becomes the eighth person to lead the agency,

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ... Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said. United Statescategory American Airlines jet and helicopter collide, crash ...

The Senate confirmed Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday during a weekend vote, as Republicans overcame efforts by Democrats to delay the process by using procedural hurdles.

The United States Senate has voted to confirm South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Fox News reports that the development makes her the fourth of President Donald Trump’s nominees to win approval from the Senate.

The Senate voted on Saturday to confirm Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, putting a former South Dakota governor in charge of the department at the heart of President Trump’s agenda to crack down on immigration. The vote was 59 to 34, and she was sworn-in on Saturday afternoon by the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.