WATCH: Noem says she’ll shut down CBP One app ‘on day 1’

Homeland Security Secretary nominee Kristi Noem said in her confirmation hearing Thursday held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that on her first day in office she would shut down an app that asylum seekers use to enter the country.

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Late. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asked Noem about the app, CBP One, which has been designated by President Joe Biden’s administration as the only way migrants can seek asylum at the southern border.

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“Senator, if it is confirmed and I have the opportunity to be secretary, on day one, CBP One will be shut down,” Noem said, adding “there is data and information in there that we will preserve so that we can ensure , that we know who is coming into this country and who is already here that we must find.”

Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, is a rancher and former member of Congress. A close ally of Trump, Noem has called migration across the US southern border “an invasion.”

If confirmed, Noem will play a key role in carrying out his promised immigration crackdown by leading the Department of Homeland Security, one of the largest federal agencies.


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