Kristi Noem's turbulent stint at the top of US homeland security ended on 24 March in Washington, when the former Homeland Security Secretary formally left Donald Trump's Cabinet and slid into a new post as 'Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas,' a role critics say has left Kristi Noem 'humiliated' as she is moved out of the president's inner circle and placed under a deputy secretary.
For starters, Noem had been serving as the 8th Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Trump's second term, a high‑profile job that put her in charge of the US border, immigration enforcement, and domestic security.
