Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered Spirit Airlines jets before realizing the airline didn’t own the planes — and that those aircraft didn’t have engines, according to a report.
Noem and top adviser Corey Lewandowski planned on using the ten 737 planes from Spirit to increase the number of deportation flights — as part of President Donald Trump’s agenda — as well as to use them for their own travel, sources told the Wall Street Journal. The Trump administration is on pace to deport 600,000 immigrants by the end of the year, the DHS said in September.
