While he breaks from the incoming Trump administration on talk of using the National Guard for mass deportations, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., incoming chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is going to help push South Dakota GOP Gov. Kristi Noem through as DHS secretary.

“My first order of business will be getting her confirmed, and I plan on trying to do that either the day of the inauguration or that week,” Paul told host John Catsimatidis on Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 77 FM-N.Y.

Noem has sent South Dakota National Guard to the southern border to help Republican states like Texas do the job the Biden administration was derelict in doing with illegal migration, but Paul has expressed he opposes using the National Guard to help border czar Tom Homan and Immigration and Customs Enforcement conduct mass deportation of criminal illegal aliens, starting with those in jail, who have committed crimes, or facing criminal charges.

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