President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to name North Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Security, in a trio of moves promoting a hardline approach to immigration, including mass deportations and aggressive actions against drug cartels.

Trump had announced that Tom Homan, a former immigration official in the first Trump administration, would take on a role the next president would call “The Border Czar.”

“I have known Tom for a long time and there is no one better to police and control our borders,” Trump aware Sunday night on social media. “Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all deportations of illegal aliens to their home country.”

And Trump reportedly tapped Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner, as White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Vice President-Elect J.D. Vance on social networks He called the election “another fantastic election by the president.”

Noem’s election was reported by Washington Post, cnn and Fox News. Miller’s selection has been informed by Washington Post and other means. Noem’s appointment would have to be confirmed by the Senate, while Homan and Miller’s positions would not.

Noem stands out among the options because as governor of South Dakota she has not had a role focused on immigration, nor has she even served as chief executive of a state along the border. However, Noem has been a voice for a tough immigration policy consistent with Trump’s approach during the election campaign.

On the eve of Election Day, Noem sounded the alarm at a Trump campaign event in Michigan about the Biden administration’s border policies and the possible continuation of that approach under President Kamala Harris, according to a Michigan report Advance.

“Kamala Harris has allowed 13,000 murderers into this country and 16,000 rapists into this country simply by facilitating that open border,” Noem said. “Just think about your county and how small your community of people is, and you have four more murderers living right there in your community, that’s the average across this country.”

In February, Noem convened a joint session of the South Dakota state Legislature to deliver a speech on immigration, promising to send material and personnel assistance to border states, including barbed wire for use in barriers along the border. between the United States and Mexico.

“The United States of America is in a moment of invasion,” Noem said at the time. “The invasion is coming through our southern border. All 50 states have a common enemy, and that enemy is the Mexican drug cartels. “They are waging war against our nation and these cartels are perpetuating violence in every one of our states, including here in South Dakota.”

The other two choices of Miller and Homan have well-established reputations for their tough approaches on immigration, including their work in leadership roles during Trump’s first term.

Homan earned a reputation as a fierce defender of Trump’s immigration policies as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as evidenced by intense exchanges with members of Congress, including an exchange that is now circulated widely online in which he defended himself against tough questions from the Representative. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

In an appearance on Fox News Tuesday morning, Homan said Trump’s approach would be “really the same as during the first administration, except a whole lot more, because 10 million people entered this country illegally under the Biden administration.” .

Homan said the mass deportation plan would include “threats to public safety and threats to national security” as the top priority for deportation, which he suggested would include immigrants whose deportation was ordered by immigration judges but who remained in the United States. Joined.

Homan said workplace raids “have to be done,” claiming they are a major source of sex trafficking and forced labor trafficking.

“The Biden administration closed workplaces at one point to say we care about sex trafficking and human trafficking, then closed workplaces, which is one of the main areas where we find victims of this,” Homan said.

Homan identified as another priority more than 300,000 children who he said were found to be immigrants and “smuggled into this country by criminal cartels that can’t find them,” many of them in forced labor or sex trafficking.

Miller is credited with being one of the main architects of Trump’s immigration policy during Trump’s first term, including the widely criticized policy of family separation as a punitive measure for crossing the border. Since then, he has run America First Legal, a law firm that handles cases consistent with conservative views, including allegations of anti-white racism and exaggerated claims by noncitizens who vote in U.S. elections.

During a high-profile rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in the final days before the 2024 election, Miller articulated his vision for immigration policy under Trump’s second term, according to an ABC News report. .

“Who’s going to stand up and say the cartels are gone, the criminal immigrants are gone, the gangs are gone,” Miller was quoted as saying. “America is for Americans and only Americans.”