At confirmation hearing, the South Dakota governor cited an ‘invasion’ of migrants even as illegal crossings have fallen sharply

Kristi Noem used her confirmation hearing to excoriate work done by DHS during the Biden administration and said big changes are coming.

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.

Former acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf reacts to final border numbers under the Biden administration and reports that nearly 7,000 foreign nationals were exempt from terror-related entry restrictions.

Sen. Josh Hawley secures Trump pick DHS Secy Kristi Noem's pledge to shut down CBP One app for illegals. Noem said, 'there's data and information in there that we will preserve to ensure we know who's coming into this country and who's already here,

Kristi Noem wants to "refocus" the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on critical infrastructure.

Kristi Noem, whose confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, said the U.S. border is under invasion, echoing Trump’s rhetoric to call for mass deportations.

Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security. Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota, is being questioned before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

When announcing her nomination as DHS secretary soon after the election, Trump noted that Noem dispatched the South Dakota National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to help Texas state officials fortify it amid record levels of migrant crossings.

In December, the number of migrant encounters by Border Patrol along the Southwest border dropped to about 47,300 — the lowest since August 2020

Jason Owens, the retiring chief, said he hopes future leaders remain impartial and keep politics out of the agency.