Noem vowed Friday to immediately halt the controversial mobile app that lets migrants register to enter the US.
"Mexico Embraces You" also includes busing people to their hometowns, medical attention, and enrolling returnees in social welfare programs
After President Donald Trump issued several executive orders related to border security on his first day in office, the Department of Homeland Security began implementing them the same day. Trump was the first president in modern history to declare an invasion at a U.
DHS could request up to 10,000 troops to help with efforts along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an internal Border Patrol memo obtained by ABC News.
U.S. officials say the Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days
"Let me ask you this, will you work with President Trump to reinstate the Remain in Mexico program that the President had in place in his first term, which does so much to ensure that those who would seek to abuse our asylum system are not allowed into the country,
Migrants allowed into the U.S. temporarily under certain Biden administration programs can be quickly expelled, according to a memo sent by the Trump administration's acting secretary of homeland security.
The order for DHS employees to return to work falls in tandem with Trump’s mass deportation plan announced in his inaugural address Monday
The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, officials said.
The new administration has also halted all refugee travel and processing, leaving thousands stranded as they wait to come to the US.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency central to his vision of cracking down on illegal immigration, faced senators Friday at confirmation hearing that will be her first chance to lay out her vision for the sprawling Department of Homeland Security.
New Mexico Republicans are trying to force state officials to comply with President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans, if needed.