Larry Rhoden, the chief, talks with the podium journalists in 2025. July 28, Sioux Falls Public Security Administration building. The left is also visible by Dan Satorlee, Director of the Criminal Investigation Division, and Sam Olson, Director of the Minneapolis Field Bureau in the field of immigration and customs implementation. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)
The election year requires politicians to perform a difficult maneuvering. Although the elected officer will present a new initiative as a way to help voters, opponents are likely to mark it as a cynical attempt to activate voter favor.
This is where the governor Larry Rhoden finds himself now after the message Operation Prairie Thunder; He undertakes to support the Federal Immigration Department of the National Guard, Highway Patrol and Correction, and encouraged state troops to saturate the Sioux waterfall patrols.
The National Guard soldiers will help us to carry out immigration and customs authorities in administrative tasks, and will be carried out regularly during their work during their work, and the Correctional Department will coordinate with ICE to deport prisoners in state care that has joined the country illegally.
Program critics complained that Rhoden was using state resources to continue his political ambitions, although the governor did not disclose whether he would seek elections to the office he had acquired when the Kremis noem joined President Donald Trump’s cabinet.
“Although I agree that we have to consider criminals accountable and serious because of crime, that is, it is too far,” said Sioux Falls Democrat Sen. Liz Larson.
If Democrats believe the Prairie Thunder is the first attempt by Rhoden to use their office for political benefit, they are delayed with their criticism.
Since mid -March, the governor has run a shadow re -election campaign during his Opence Tour.
Rhoden presented this initiative as a sequel to the Noem Open for Business program. According to a Governor’s Bureau’s press release, the Open for Tour Tour will be shown to the governor Rhoden, visiting South Dakota communities to emphasize their economic development efforts, learn their specific needs and work together to scan opportunities. “
In fact, Rhoden also stepped into the campaign trail. Open for Tour Tour introduces business leaders to its new governor. It also presents a new governor with a constantly growing group of potential political donors.
The search for state news, which does not register, has found that as of March 17. Rhoden announced 17 open opportunities for travel to 25 communities. From Sioux Falls to Standing Rock Reserve, Mud Butte to Mitchell, from Box Elder to Huron, Rhoden meets with business leaders in each community and pencils its rolex.
On the one hand, it is refreshing to have a governor who prefers to travel in the state rather than from the state. Of course, all these trips are funded by the states, your tax dollars at work, when Roden estimates several political points.
The irony is that the Prairie Thunder’s work is likely to be alienated with some of them. When committed to rounding illegal foreigners, it will be harder to complete the work that only immigrants want to deal with.
Although the South Dakota is open to the possibility, one of those opportunities for Rhodene had to run a political campaign using state funds. In essence, the governor is used by an institution that he has not been selected as a means of launching a campaign that has not yet been announced. Now it’s quite an opportunity.
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