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The Senate confirmed Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Saturday.

“The yeas are 59, the nays are 34. The nomination is confirmed,” Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, who presided over the confirmation, said on the floor of the Senate after the livestreamed roll call vote.

Noem, 53, becomes the eighth DHS Secretary. Her confirmation hearing was held Jan. 17. She will take over from Acting Secretary Benjamine Huffman, who was serving as a placeholder pending Noem’s confirmation.

She is expected to execute President Donald Trump’s executive orders regarding border security and immigration while overseeing the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Secret Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies.

Noem resigned Saturday as South Dakota’s governor, with Lt. Governor Larry Rhoden to replace her. “As you assume the role of Governor, please remember our state motto: ‘Under God, the People Rule.’ I chose you because I knew that you would approach the role the same way that I did,” she wrote to Rhoden in her resignation letter.

The voting margin for Noem’s confirmation was not similar to that for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose confirmation went down to the wire Friday and required Vice President J.D. Vance to break the tie with his vote and ensure Hegseth’s confirmation.

Border security reinforcement and the deportation of illegal immigrants are already underway, as the Department of Defense announced the deployment of 1,500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and military planes for the deportation of 5,000 illegal immigrants detained by the CBP. Two military airplanes flew 160 illegal immigrants to Guatemala Friday, Reuters reported.

Trump picked Noem to be DHS Secretary in November 2024. “Kristi has been very strong on Border Security,” Trump said. “I have known Kristi for years, and have worked with her on a wide variety of projects — She will be a great part of our mission to Make America Safe Again.”

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South Dakotans flame school board meeting over ‘pornographic’ books: ‘This is the Marxist global revolution

by Hannah Grossman, Fox News, May 6, 2022:

South Dakota locals expressed outrage during a school board meeting Tuesday over novels they deemed inappropriate and “pornographic” that were once slated to be taught in Rapid City Area Schools’ (RCAS) 12th-grade English.

For example, a graphic novel called “Fun Home” depicts nudity and sex acts, and “Girl, Woman, Other” follows the journey of women of various sexual and gender identities.

“The pictures in [‘Fun Home’] … are graphic and depict two women performing oral sex, images of masturbation and drug usage. I do apologize if there are children [present],” a local woman said. “There is a difference between teaching what sex is and teaching how to engage in it. And that’s what’s happening in this book.”…

Another speaker at the meeting said the books “have merit in our curriculum” because they highlight marginalized voices such as “Black and brown characters … [and the] LGBTQIA+ community.”

Florence Thomas, the president of South Dakota Parents Involved in Education, said, the overall picture was that of a “Marxist revolution.”

“It’s not this little issue. It’s not this little book or this little school or this little district. This is all going on all over. And these books are not here by accident,” she said. “Our education system has been taken over to a large extent from the federal level … and we need to start saying no at the local level. We’re not going to do this to our kids. We’re not going to do this to our community.”

Thomas, who is also a former school psychologist, continued, “Where’s all this coming from? … This is the Marxist global revolution – it’s the Cultural Revolution – and this is what is coming into our schools. It is Marxist propaganda. It’s designed to divide the kids from their parents, divide the kids from their country, divide the kids from their culture, and even in many cases, divide them from their very selves. So it is very dangerous.”

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South Dakotans flame school board meeting over ‘pornographic’ books: ‘This is the Marxist global revolution