On March 28th, 2025, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (former governor of South Dakota) visited Mexico.
From the Associated Press: “U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem landed in Mexico on Friday [March 28] to cap off a tour to three Latin American nations to discuss immigration, crime and deportation. Noem’s first visit to the region comes as it gains increasing importance to the Trump administration, which is attempting to scale up deportation efforts and warn against migration north. As Noem visited El Salvador and Colombia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Guyana to meet with a number of Caribbean leaders.”
“After being greeted at the airport by Mexico’s foreign minister, Noem met with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and other top Mexican officials. The two leaders were photographed sitting next to each other in a meeting room along with other aids and together in front of American and Mexican flags. Sheinbaum’s government has been working to offset tariffs lodged by the Trump administration, which economic forecasters say could thrust the Mexican economy into a recession.”
On Twitter X, Secretary Noem tweeted this summary: “Today, I met with @Claudiashein to discuss Mexico’s role in securing the U.S.-Mexico border. Mexico’s deployment of National Guard troops to the border and acceptance of deportation flights is a positive step, but there is still much work to be done to stop the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants into our country. Our partnership will help make America and the Central American region safe again.”
Here’s what President Sheinbaum tweeted about the meeting [my translation]: “In the Palacio Nacional [building at the top of this page] we received the Secretary of National Security of the United States, Kristi Noem, with whom we had a profitable meeting in the benefit of Mexico and the United States. Our countries maintain a good relation in the framework of respect of our sovereignties.”
Note that Sheinbaum called Noem’s position “Secretary of National Security”, which I guess is a fair characterization of her job.
On Sheinbaum’s Twitter X feed there were some comments about the noticeable height difference between the two women. Here is a photo of the two, posted by President Sheinbaum:
In Sheinbaum’s Twitter X thread, Rigo DM asks “How tall is Kristi Noem?”
Carlos González Baños tweets “What an unfortunate photo. Change advisors, President.”
According to the HowTallis website , Claudia Sheinbaum is five foot four while
Kristi Noem is 5 foot 7 inches.
However, according to the IMDB website, Kristi Noem is 5′ 7½″.