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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

DHS inks $140 million deal for Boeing jets to serve as its deportation fleet

Donald Trump’s administration is scooping up six Boeing 737 planes to support the president’s mass deportation agenda, giving the Department of Homeland Security its own fleet of jetliners to speed up removals rather than rely on charter flights.

Most removal flights are arranged under Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Air Operations, which hires out private charter companies to transfer detained immigrants across the country or deport them elsewhere.

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