Burgum said that there are a number of talented people who want to serve in this administration. He also said that the transition team has been overloaded with applications.

In Trump’s second administration, Noem would join several former Trump officials who were the architects and biggest defenders of his hard-line immigration policies.

Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security, one of the biggest government agencies that will be integral to his vow to secure the border and carry out a massive deportation operation. The 52-year-old was born in Watertown,

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday announced plans to nominate South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security of his incoming administration.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is reportedly poised to win President-elect Trump’s nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Noem, 51, a two-term conservative Republican, will become the third key immigration hard-liner to be named to Trump’s new administration cabinet after Stephen Miller was tapped to be deputy White House chief of staff and Tom Homan as so-called border czar,