Gov. Noem to Address Joint Session of SD Legislature on Border Warzone
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem requested a joint session of the South Dakota Legislature to provide a briefing on the warzone at America’s Southern Border. House and Senate leadership quickly accepted the governor’s request. You can read the full letter here.
“I will address the joint session of the legislature on the current situation at the border and the potential South Dakota response,” wrote Governor Noem. “Because of the dire situation, it is pertinent that we have this conversation quickly.”
This joint session would make South Dakota the first state in the nation to take the rare step of calling a joint session to support Texas. The joint session will take place on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at 2pm CT.
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We have such a short session and she is wasting time on this political stunt by someone so desperate to be on the Trump ticket and make national news?
The border should have been secured 16 years ago. You hush your anti-Noem rhetoric.
He has been programmed well by herr cory shortyberger.
Is there anyone thing else you think about other than Heidelberger?
Your wife.
Who is this guy that constantly is here to call this guy short? I’ve been here about four years, and haven’t ever met or seen Cory, who runs DFP, his blog isn’t even active anymore. Imagine being so obsessed and triggered by someone who doesn’t think like you that you make a weekly post trying to insult someone for being short. #TrueSnowflake
More performative nonsense. The real “warzone” is the fight among Republican governors to get their photo ops in on the one mile of the Rio Grande where they tour in airboats and camo.
What you gonna do guv? Get the legislature to adopt a resolution that censures in advance, Thune, Rounds, and Johnson, if they go so far as to agree to a reasonable compromise that most Republicans have supported for years? Totally meaningless and unserious. And she wants to be his VP!!!
All in the name of Trump.
Should be interesting to watch Noem supporters who cant stand Trump ignore the cognitive dissonance of their poster girl making an absolute show of herself to court his VP nom.
It’s interesting and yet frustrating to watch the general cognitive dissonance of anyone who says they are a democrat.
So, it’s impossible to take issue with the governor or Trump and still be a Republican? Sounds like you’ve outed yourself as a member of a cult.
Sounds like you are just another idiot. I never said any of that. If you think I did, please cut and paste the exact wording where I stated your BS accusation.
My statement meant that democrats have a general cognitive dissonance…which I believe is necessary to call yourself a democrat and believe what they believe.
Oof someone’s had a nerve hit.
Nope…just don’t take any BS from know-nothing libt###s.
So you do know what “cognitive dissonance” means, right? A discomfort a person feels whent their behavior does not align with their values or beliefs. So, where in all of this discussion about the appearance of a disconnect between the Noem and Trump border positions, do Democrats, or reasonable Republicans (like myself) do you need to throw out a big psychological term and then resort to name calling? Go back to your rock.
Trump’s idea of a “bad bill” is one that protects America and Americans but he doesn’t get to take credit for.
I’m a pawn your a pawn everyone’s a pawn, don’t you want to be a pawn too!
Uh oh, someone is jealous that Elise Stefanik is stealing their VP thunder!
The scramble for the VP slot is interesting.
What are the chances Trump will be the Republican nominee? 100%?
what are the chances Trump will win the election? 60%?
What are the chances he will be either prevented from taking office or removed from office? 75%? 100%?
What are the chances his VP will end up with the top job? Looking better all the time. It’s not surprising people are looking at it.
this border politicking is so achingly tedious. i don’t know about you, but i’d welcome a lactation controversy about now. i won’t undervalue the muellers ever again.
And our property taxes just shot up considerably, AGAIN!! Sending our National Guard to the border is financed how??
Tell me why you think 10 million (not vetted and not tracked) illegal aliens coming into USA since 2020 is not a problem.?
since nobody is tracking and vetting them, i’m going to feel free to set your 10-million figure aside until there’s reliable corroboration.
the 10-million guestimate comes from right wing ‘think-tanks’ like the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas. hardly objective observers. again, more facts needed. there’s too much emotion and rush to action, too little thought and application of proper process, like an act of congress for example. why is that?
You appear to be the type who would believe CBS. In Dec 2023 over 275,000 that the government admits to.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-crossings-u-s-southern-border-record-monthly-high-december/
1/4 million a month that we know about.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-crossings-u-s-southern-border-record-monthly-high-december/
granting number validity, then your trump-backed delay and prevention of congressional action “so biden doesn’t get credit” – is tenfold more evil.
sneaker johnson calling for biden to try doing things trump-style with executive orders only sets up a situation where johnson can slap biden down, as trump’s payback for how congress pulled the rug from under him.
thanks to the party of trump, republicans will own the debacle unfolding right now because congress is prevented from exercising its own proper leadership, and ceding the whole group’s power to trump’s whims. yay. we own a debacle. we have picked ourselves a king to rule over us.
the old testament bible passages where israel rejected a republic and begged for kings to rule them is coming around again.
“prevention of congressional action “so biden doesn’t get credit” – is tenfold more evil.”
Another brilliant piece of logic from the resident RINO.
You think around 1.5 million illegals per year is acceptable? That’s what this bill would allow. How many are you going to let live with you? Oh, I know….ZERO.
Almost nothing would change except for more money will be given to process those illegals and release them quicker.
Biden created this disaster with executive orders. He can fix it with executive orders. The statute already exists that allows him to end it. So by blaming the Republicans, who is really playing the politics?
And who is taking the bait and believing his BS…that would be YOU.
i stand by each thing i posted. are you too dense to understand that illegal status persons who have survived here 2 to 5 years have become a big part of state and federal tax revenues of various types, and that we’d benefit by moving them to a form of legal non-citizen status? the 1.5-million who’d enter legally as guest workers would also do their part to add to our local and state economies and government funding, lowering the barriers reek on you without eroding a single one of your full-citizen rights? do you realize if we had simply worked a sane deal out during the “shamnesty” debacle back in the 2000’s, we could have avoided all of this? do you realize that trump wasted three years ignoring this, then got mad because he couldn’t do a presidential hail-mary pass that wrecked other federal budgets for his power grab? that we could have predicted his “and mexico will pay for it” b-s was it b-s? your goofy outrage at my opposition to this warmongering for trump’s self-amnesty plan – is nothing next to my outrage at this useless dangerous political theater.
“barriers reek” should be “burden.”
So then why haven’t your establishment heroes worked out a plan over the last 20 year? And all of these illegals, over 8M, are all going to get guest worker permits? And if having illegals flood into city is so prosperous and grows the local economy, please tell us how places like Chicago, New York, LA, San Diego, and the numerous border towns in the south are faring.
short answer: campaign managers don’t want to give up the issues.
unsolved immigration issues keep the hard right mad and voting, can’t fix that no matter how hard you want to.
unsolved healthcare and climate change issues keep the hard left voting so we never fix that either.
the joke is really on you if you think the texas border kerfuffle will change anything. but you’re probably on a campaign someplace so you want only the illusion of action.
So in other words your establishment heroes aren’t doing anything.
Still didn’t say how many illegals you are going to invite into your home. After all you are in favor of letting 1.5M in per year so why not put up or shut up?
they’ll get their own jobs. hopefully yours.
Guess again dipshit, I’m retired.
for now.
Still haven’t or can’t answer any of issues yet have you…deflect, deflect, deflect. It is the RINO way.
If you’re a parent struggling to find daycare, don’t expect any help from us. If you’re a child going hungry without school lunch for the summer, don’t expect any help from us. If you’re an imaginary line in the dirt 1000 miles away, we’ve got your back baby!
Civil War? Join us at Meal Team Six! Now serving and getting served. Mom where are my pizza pockets?
I don’t foresee Kristi getting the VP nomination, but regardless, I don’t see Trump winning. He has his base, but we saw that fail in 2020. To pick up new people, he will need to run on some sort of policy other than more tax cuts for the wealthy. We have 4 years of near zero serious policy proposed by GOP. I honestly have been surprised, past election primaries were filled with things like tax overhauls (Ted Cruz and his postcard), K-12 policy changes (Marco Rubio), balanced budget (John Kasich). This year with Halley (balanced budget), just seems unrealistic, especially when she mentions raising the retirement age and cutting social security. Ramaswamy (very interesting options, but got in line with Trump very fast), could have worked but couldn’t get past Trump in the primary. Trump is running on revenge for your enemies and immigration, which has been a repeat issue with caravan’s coming every two years, even readers here are laughing at this “threat”.
This is pretty much your last election, boomers, get your stuff together.
for trump to win, he needs to find 12 million voters who have never ever heard of him, and don’t watch the nightly news at all. good luck.
There is a good chance a new political party will emerge after 2024 that will include former Republicans that want nothing to do with the Trump Party and all the election deniers. Probably will include Independents former moderate and Conservative Dems too. The GOP is already in many respects the RINO party. Mob rule.
if marjorie taylor greene’s promise to purify the party, and a reading of latin-american / south-american history can guide us, i seriously fear for what comes next from the new monarchists.
Probably more effective to call up the Speaker to bring that bill to the floor but what do I know, I’m not running for VP of a twice impeached loser.
Thune backed Lankford Schumer/Biden negotiated immigration plan legalize the border crisis it will not Stop the crisis. According to information obtained by the Immigration Accountability Project:
The Lankford/McConnell/Biden plan would put into law that illegal immigration is only an emergency when it reaches a minimum of 4,000 illegal crossings each day. That means, in their view, that it is just fine for almost 1.5 million illegal aliens to enter the United States each year.
The plan would NOT end catch-and-release, but instead gives illegal aliens immediate work permits as soon as they are released. Currently, illegal aliens who are released from custody to apply for asylum have to wait 180 days to apply for a work permit. Giving them immediate work permits will incentivize more illegal immigration!
The plan would NOT end the Biden Administration’s abuse of parole, but merely says that illegal aliens encountered at the southern border can’t be given parole. This means the administration can continue to fly hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to U.S. airports and give them parole.
The plan would NOT address the wholesale trafficking of children into the United States or their distribution by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to unvetted “sponsors” who may be sex- or forced-labor traffickers. Apparently, these Senators are not bothered by the numerous reports of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) being forced to work at dangerous jobs, rather than going to school, or the fact that HHS has lost track of at least 85,000 children it distributed to unvetted sponsors.
The plan WOULD give more taxpayer dollars to DHS to process illegal aliens into the United States faster.
The plan WOULD give more taxpayer dollars to NGOs that are transporting illegal aliens to communities all over the United States.
Here is a question – People are right now talking about how there are 250K to 300K illegals coming over the boarder every month – that’s between 3 and 3.6 Million a year.
Isn’t 1.5 million BETTER than 3 million?
Yes, there is a crisis at the boarder, and we need fix this.
But this crisis has been going on since the Regan administration.
This isn’t unique to Biden, or Trump, or Obama, or Bush, or Clinton, or Bush….
But fixing his without violating international laws and treaties, our own (much more important) national laws, and our constitution is going to be a long and iterative process. We will have to take multiple small steps and both parties will have to work together.
Is the proposed law perfect? No – it’s a pile of crap.
Is it better than the CURRENT state of affairs? marginally yes. Heck, some of the aspects you are complaining about (the work permits/etc.) other people can make the argument that they’re a good thing – example – with work permits we know where they are and can track them AND because we can track them if they are declared ineligible for asylum we can deport them easier. – we aren’t having to spend government resources to make sure their kids aren’t starving in the streets and that they aren’t suddenly homeless.
Things aren’t black and white here. I’m willing to trust Sen. Thune that he knows that this is better than nothing AND that this could be a good first step in a long long process.
1.5 million an acceptable number? So what is an acceptable number of people breaking into your home before there is a police response? 1, 2,or 5?