Homeland security secretary nominee Kristi Noem said in her confirmation hearing Thursday that on her first day in office, she would shut down an app that asylum-seekers use to enter the country.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Department of Homeland Security secretary, vowed Friday to immediately halt the mobile app that lets migrants register to enter the US.

Kristi Noem made numerous promising pledges during her confirmation hearing on Friday, not the least of which was her vow to eliminate a tool illegal aliens have […]

President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Homeland Security secretary portrayed illegal immigration as an "invasion" and the U.S.-Mexico border as a "war zone" during a U.S. Senate confirmation on Friday where she pledged to back Trump's hard line on immigration.

Friday’s hearing will be her first chance to lay out a vision for the sprawling department that will be central to Donald Trump’s plans for cracking down on illegal immigration

Noem's role as Homeland Security secretary is expected to be more limited in scope than her predecessors’, sources familiar with the Trump transition tell NBC News.

So far, Kristi Noem appears to have strong backing from GOP senators who will be crucial to her confirmation as head of the Department of Homeland Security.

Kristi Noem, nominee for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, plans an immigration crackdown similar to Donald Trump’s policies. She aims to reinstate the 'remain in Mexico' program and shut down CBP One.

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

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.

But another major issue Noem plans to tackle is cybersecurity infrastructure, including reigning in the recent anti-misinformation efforts by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which she says is a deviation from its core mission and an endangerment to Americans’ civil liberties.