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Fresh from spending $200 million taxpayer dollars on private jets in the middle of a government shutdown, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem apparently was also looking for ICE to purchase ten Boeing 737s from bankrupt (again) Spirit Airlines. This was supposedly for two reasons: her own personal use (because the private jets weren't enough) and also to enable more deportation flights faster. Sadly for Noem, this plan had just a couple of small problems — Spirit leases its aircraft and doesn't actually own any to sell, and the ones in question didn't have any engines anyway.
The Wall Street Journal broke the news, citing inside sources that aren't happy about how Noem is using ICE's massive new budget. Given that there are other (and cheaper) ways to increase deportation flights, such as just leveling up current contracts, the whole thing seems like it was more for show than to actually advance any policy. For that matter, as the article notes, ICE is having trouble actually arresting enough people to fill the Trump administration's targets. Maybe there's just not that many hardened undocumented criminals, and many of them are in fact working important jobs? Anyway, given that they've taken to arresting Koreans at a Hyundai plant, it doesn't seem like they have enough people to deport to fill ten 737s. Probably for the best, then, that the plan is on hold now.
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The Wall Street Journal broke the news, citing inside sources that aren't happy about how Noem is using ICE's massive new budget. Given that there are other (and cheaper) ways to increase deportation flights, such as just leveling up current contracts, the whole thing seems like it was more for show than to actually advance any policy. For that matter, as the article notes, ICE is having trouble actually arresting enough people to fill the Trump administration's targets. Maybe there's just not that many hardened undocumented criminals, and many of them are in fact working important jobs? Anyway, given that they've taken to arresting Koreans at a Hyundai plant, it doesn't seem like they have enough people to deport to fill ten 737s. Probably for the best, then, that the plan is on hold now.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Tried To Buy 737s From Bankrupt Spirit Airlines That It Didn't Own And Also Didn't Have Engines
Fresh from spending $200 million taxpayer dollars on private jets in the middle of a government shutdown, Noem was also looking for ICE to purchase ten 737s.
