The U.S. Senate is set to confirm Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary, with bipartisan support, as she pledges to enforce strict immigration policies.

Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is in Codington County about 187 miles northeast of the state's capital Pierre. The new Secretary of Homeland Security is married to Bryon Noem.

The Senate confirmed Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Saturday. “The yeas are 59, the nays are 34. The nomination is confirmed,” Republican Kansas Sen.

Noem will be in charge of executing one of President Trump's biggest priorities in his second term: cracking down on immigration.

President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security more will sit for a Senate confirmation hearing Friday morning.

Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald ... having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I'd been a children's pastor, after all)." Noem's spokesperson later confirmed to Politico ...

Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem received a $139,750 advance ... Trump eventually picked J.D. Vance as his partner on the ticket, and Noem was nominated as Homeland Security Secretary.

Seven Democratic senators voted to confirm South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) as the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), allowing her to lead an agency that will be paramount to President Trump’s plan to crack down on illegal immigration during his second White House term.

President Donald Trump delivered remarks in Las Vegas and traveled to Miami as the administration pushes his immigration agenda.

The South Dakota governor will oversee a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and a clampdown on illegal immigration.