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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

Taking ICE to the skies: Noem wants a whole fleet of DHS owned planes to fly deportees back to their home countries

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants planes that Immigration and Customs and Enforcement can use to fly immigrants to their home countries in order to help achieve the Trump administration’s deportation quota, according to a report.

The agency currently uses charter and commercial planes to transport immigrants from the United States. Noem is pushing to purchase planes for ICE to own and operate, sources told NBC News.

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