The Senate confirmed Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday during a weekend vote, as Republicans overcame efforts by Democrats to delay the process by using procedural hurdles.

The role is key to Trump’s plans for the second term after his pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and impose a crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Security, putting the former South Dakota governor in charge of the sprawling agency with responsibility for border security.

Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams has the latest on the Trump administration's efforts to remove illegal migrants on 'Special Report.'

Kristi Noem glammed up for a photo-op while she tagged along on the first major deportation raids in New York City since Donald Trump assumed office. Noem, the former South Dakota governor who Trump tapped to be his homeland security secretary,

The ink on her confirmation as secretary for Homeland Security was barely dry before Kristi Noem went to work. Noem

Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the wee hours of Tuesday morning as they conducted the first deportation operation in New York City. Noem said ICE agents nabbed an illegal immigrant “with kidnapping,

Arresting some criminal aliens this morning in NYC – thank you to the brave officers involved,” Noem wrote on X at about 6 a.m. Tuesday along with pics of Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents preparing for the operation.