Refuting one of the most bizarre claims from Trump‘s Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, multiple federal law enforcement sources have now told The Intercept that Noem’s story about an alleged cannibal deportee was “completely made up” and never happened.
According to sources cited in The Intercept — including a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the matter — Noem’s dramatic anecdote about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents allegedly detaining a cannibal who began eating his own arms mid-flight on a deportation plane was a fabrication.
