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| 'Literally a war zone': Noem questions whether VP Harris is 'aware she's in charge' of border |
| 2022-08-02 |
| [JustTheNews] In South Dakota, "the increase in illegal drugs and activity has been dramatic since we've seen this open border," said GOP Gov. Kristi Noem. South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem questions whether Vice President Kamala Harris, whom President Biden put in charge of managing U.S.-Mexico border policy, even knows she's in charge because she's "seen no activity from her." Noem, a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, was asked for her assessment of Harris' job performance as the border czar. "I don't even know if she's aware she's in charge, because I've seen no activity for her," Noem told Just the News during a roundtable with journalists ahead of her keynote address at the Young America's Foundation student conference on Thursday. "It's unfortunate." Republicans on Capitol Hill often say that every state is a border state, given that the Biden administration is allowing the release of millions of illegal immigrants into the U.S. after they arrive at the border to make an asylum claim. Noem elaborated on the challenges her state is facing with illegal immigration. "I think what's happening at the border is completely different than just illegal immigration," she said. "This is a national security threat because we don't have a secure border. "When Arizona and Texas requested help, I sent my National Guard. In fact, I was the first governor to send National Guard. Most other governors were responding with law enforcement, but recognizing the unique situation we have down there, it literally is a war zone, so we had members volunteer to go as a unit to partner with the Texas Guard and work with Border Patrol, and they were there for a period of time. "And now I'll be sending down some of my National Guard, Lakota helicopters, to help us with surveillance, but for us in particular, you know, I telegraphed pretty widely to my NGOs and nonprofits that if they cooperated with facilitating people that were crossing the border illegally in our state, that they would have a difficult time with their state contracts and licenses if they worked to break our federal laws in partnership with what this administration is doing." Noem also said her state is having difficulty with the illegal drugs and human trafficking coming across the border. "The drugs and human trafficking are devastating for our state," she said "I have nine Native American tribes, and they are sovereign governments. I don't have any authority or jurisdiction on their lands. And a lot of the drugs and trafficking that's happening that go out throughout the Midwest are being funneled through my tribal reservations. "So there's very little law and order there. There's a lot of poverty and wide open spaces, and we've got some of the cartels that have a presence in South Dakota on our reservation land, and a lot of those drugs are moving through those areas. And I have very little that I can do to address it, so the increase in illegal drugs and activity has been dramatic since we've seen this open border." Just the News asked Noem if her state is accepting illegal immigrants via bus or plane from the border. Washington D.C. is accepting thousands, and Mayor Muriel Bowser is asking the Biden administration for help. "We have not seen that," said Noem. "And I haven't had reports of that in our state. I think it's because I have been pretty open and aggressive with our nonprofits on their activities and involvement on how that would be received." Related: Kristi Noem: 2022-06-07 Gov. Kristi Noem: Food Insecurity - China Buying Millions of Acres of Ag Land, Food Processing Biz Kristi Noem: 2022-06-03 No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don't Comply With Its LGBT Agenda Kristi Noem: 2022-02-05 South Dakota bans transgender women from competing on female sports teams - the 10th state to do so: Lawmakers used record-smashing UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas as proof of unfair advantage Related: Young America''s Foundation: 2020-02-16 Students Who Tried To Kick Out White People ‘Thought They Were Gonna Be Hailed As Heroes,’ Says YAF Young America''s Foundation: 2016-10-02 Professor threatens students who troll U-Mich LGBT pronoun rule Young America''s Foundation: 2011-09-14 Northern Arizona U. officials confront students passing out flags |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 She is a bureaucrat, a politician and a lawyer: she's only knows that "It's not my fault, unless it's a Good Thingâ„¢ in which case she wants all the rewards!" |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-02 21:43 |
| #5 #2 - nice ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-08-02 09:24 |
| #4 Texas AG Paxton won’t issue legal opinion on invasion |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-02 08:28 |
| #3 About face: Biden resumes constructing border wall after pledging to not build 'another foot' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-02 08:19 |
| #2 She is aware of the awareness of the border which is next to another country which makes it a border of which she is aware. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-08-02 07:37 |
| #1 Biden’s Open Border Attracting the World’s Poor: ‘I Don’t Have a Dollar’ |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-02 07:37 |