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(NewsNation) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants Immigration and Customs Enforcement to usage accrued backing to buy, ain and run its ain fleet of airplanes to deport immigrants.
Department of Homeland Security sources corroborate to NewsNation that Noem is pushing to usage billions successful caller backing to bargain planes outright — a determination which would extremity years of hiring charter companies to deport immigrants.
ICE presently rents betwixt 8 and 14 planes astatine a clip — capable to deport astir 15,000 radical per month. The goal, according to ICE officials, is to treble that fig to 30-35,000 removals per month. ICE estimates it would request astir 30 plans to regenerate its existent charter system.
In total, the fleet could outgo upwards of $12 billion. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s caller taxation bill, however, earmarked a monolithic $75 cardinal for ICE nether the alleged “big, beauteous bill.”
The bureau would beryllium liable for level attraction successful accordance with Federal Aviation Administration rules and regulations.
The Trump medication has said it intends to deport astir 1 cardinal immigrants a year. According to information implicit Trump’s six months successful office, ICE has deported upwards of 150,000 people, which includes self-deportations.
