South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem banned from tribal land over U.S.-Mexico border comments: "Blatant disrespect"

A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state's reservations.

"Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!" Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. "Oyate" is a word for people or nation.

Star Comes Out accused Noem, who has been campaigning for former U.S. President Donald Trump, of trying to use the border issue to help get Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate.