Today's intersection: Noem turns away refugees as South Dakota homefront falls apart

Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has national political ambitions yet her home state is reeling from increased homelessness, elevated pandemic infection rates and more deaths from automobile crashes. 

And, while she publicly denounces refugees her own cabinet is offering multiple language services to those suffering under her thumb even as nurses in South Dakota are the second worst paid in America and the state’s medical industry triopoly operates without scrutiny. 

The Big Sioux River is so polluted the call for volunteers to clean it up is falling on deaf ears. 

As young people and Democrats flee South Dakota more brown people are doing the work in the failed red moocher state. Spanish speakers prop up the federally subsidized dairy industry East River but in Huron Karen refugees slaughter and process turkeys.

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