Just last year former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was under consideration as Donald Trump’s Vice Presidential running mate.

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, ...

The homeland security secretary oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection ... In South Dakota, many migrants, some in the country without permanent legal status, power the labor-heavy jobs that ...

"The Trump Administration will once-again empower our brave men and women in law enforcement to do their jobs and ... help to fix it. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security nominee ...