Photo: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem gestures as she speaks at the Calvin Coolidge Foundation conference at the Library of Congress on February 17, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, a potential far right running mate for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, suggested on Sunday that there could be a violent altercation between GOP-run states and the Biden administration if President Joe Biden federalizes control of states’ National Guard units in order to address a disagreement about razor wire barriers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The barriers — which human rights advocates say are a violation of international law — were erected at the order of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to deter migrants from crossing into the state, and have resulted in numerous horrific injuries for migrants. After U.S. Border Patrol agents began removing the barriers in October, a federal judge intervened and ordered them to stop. A Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upheld that order, but that was reversed by the Supreme Court in January, which recognized that the lower courts ignored aspects of federalism — including the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution — in barring the federal agents from performing their functions.

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