Securing Our Homeland
By: Gov. Kristi Noem
November 15, 2024
I love South Dakota. I love our natural beauty – from the rolling plains to the incredible Black Hills, from the Mighty Missouri to the peaceful prairie lakes. I love our people – they’re the hardest working around with common sense American values and strong family morals. I love everything about our state (except for maybe the January weather).
Over the last six years, I have had the opportunity to serve as Governor of the greatest state ever. It has been the honor of my lifetime to be our state’s top advocate, to serve as Commander in Chief of our National Guard, and to make decisions that honor our state motto, “Under God, the People Rule.”
You may have heard that President Trump has asked me to come serve in his Administration as the Secretary of Homeland Security, and I am honored by the nomination. When President Trump asked me, I said yes because it is an opportunity for me to serve our nation – but also because it is an opportunity to make South Dakota safer.
I respect the Senate’s role to engage fully and openly on the upcoming confirmation process. I look forward to discussing our nation’s security challenges and my commitment to addressing them head-on.
This position oversees the federal agencies responsible for our immigration system. Over the last four years, every state has become a border state. Millions of illegal immigrants have poured over our southern border, including at least 16,000 murderers and at least 18,000 rapists – and they’ve all been released into the interior of our nation. Think about that – that’s at least 3 murderers for every county in America. I don’t want any murderers in my county or anywhere near my kids and grandkids.
This border crisis has impacted us here in South Dakota, too. It has driven up crime in communities across the country as drugs and human trafficking have increased because of the willful inaction by the current administration. In South Dakota, this has hurt us the most on our tribal reservations, and I have extended my hand to help them address the very real public safety crisis that is caused by the cartels and their affiliates.
In this new role, I’ll oversee FEMA, just as you’ve seen me respond to flooding, blizzards, tornados, and wildfires in our state. We’ve made cybersecurity South Dakota’s next big industry, and I’ll have the opportunity to do similar work overseeing the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). And South Dakota has become an example of innovative law enforcement training opportunities with our first-ever tribal-focused law enforcement training – I look forward to doing similar work with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
Everything that I do will be focused on making America SAFE again, and that will make South Dakota safer, as well.
This state has been home all my life – and always will be. Thank you all for giving me the opportunity to serve you. I’ll be around for a bit yet, and when I take my new role, rest assured that I will continue to serve you in the years to come.
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Good riddance.
Good bye, Mrs. Noem. We hardly got to know you.
She has been in SD politics for 18 years; Plenty of time for you to get to know her..if you didn’t, it’s your own fault..
Who is this? I don’t know her either, she must be another GOP celebrity running as “legislator”.
I am always surprised to hear people who claim they never see her when over the years she has appeared at the Sioux Empire Fair, the Corn Palace, the State Fair in Huron, Pioneer Park in Brookings (and those are just the east river places I have seen her, I believe there have been a number west river) all events free and open to the public.)
I have also seen her at fundraisers around the state and in the Capitol.
I did see her once in Washington DC and once in O’Hare while waiting to board a plane back to Sioux Falls..
You don’t have to run for office to see her, you just have to change out of your pajamas and leave the house now and then. I know that is difficult for a lot of people.
We know your are lying though, she isn’t flying commercial at O’Hare, she has a private plane or a donor plane she flies on. Next you will say she sat in “coach” LOL
As I recall it was a smaller regional jet, three seats to a row and no first class or business class or anything lime that, but I could be wrong about that.
I ran into Dusty Johnson at FSD when he was waiting to board a flight for Chicago, too..
Try leaving the house once in a while.
I guess some people have the need to expel their excess hatred at least once a day.
Thank you Governor Noem! You’ve know how to ignore the trolls and haters. SD is proud of you and we hope you do great things at DHS.
grudznick does not expect this is a cure for the Noem Derangement Syndrome. Many fellows, such as my close personal Nebraska friend Mr. H, will be afflicted for life with Incurable NDS. You fellows out there need to ask yourownselfs, “Am I afflicted with a curable or incurable case of the NDS?”
If you missed the Opening Rant at this morning’s Conservatives with Common Sense breakfasting, there is your summary.
Are you afflicted?
Hey grudz, you forgot loony larry in NM and the fry cook from CO.
Who?
Funny how you lambast people for behaving like Trump, yet blindly crow for a woman who has constantly bent the knee to Trump, often at the expense of being here in the state. NDS is a group of people who lament what Trump has done to the party but protect one of his biggest supporters and enablers. I know you, Grudz, and stood up for you on the free press. But you are absolutely full of shit here, and I suspect you know it.
Go shave your head mangina.
Tyrus from Gutfeld and Rosanne Barr are to be announced for their high level appointments to the Trump Administration soon.
While kamala is applying for jobs at McDonald’s.
Alex Jones’s and Mike Lindell appointments to be announced in the next round. They need the help and a stable income now. Thank you President Trump!
Alex Jones for White House Press Secretary!!
Tyrus head of NASA and Rosanne Barr head of DoD Skunk Works R & D at Area 51. Make America Great Again!
Just a reminder for those of you having trouble accepting reality…TRUMP WON!! In a landslide.
It was a landslide with a clear mandate for MAGA!
My math is not good but we won 49-1 right?
I find it interesting that S.D. had money to send OUR National Guard soldiers to “ defend” our borders but could not send them down to MoCook lake to help those people IN SD because it was too expensive to do that to help our OWN people!
here we go again: people who choose to live on flood plains complaining when they get flooded.
Anybody can look at a satellite image of that area and see the way the MO and the Big Sioux have been meandering all over that flood plain probably ever since the Laurentide Ice Sheet started to melt.
McCook Lake isn’t even really a lake, it’s a horseshoe shaped bend in the river that was cut off by sediment.
Somebody once said the Army Corps of Engineers said it wasn’t a flood plain. If that is true, some real estate developer must have paid a large bribe to the person who said it..