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Posted on 08/13/2026 7:57:19 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Starting last fall, the Department of Homeland Security spent $464 million on a no-bid contract to buy 10 used airplanes from a firm in Northern Virginia.
That was an enormous price tag, but the department said it had no time to consider other offers. The planes were needed urgently for deportation flights.
But since then, the department has barely used this new fleet — for deportations, or anything else.
The department’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has long outsourced its deportation flights by chartering planes from private companies. It also uses military and Coast Guard aircraft.
In a written statement, the Homeland Security Department shifted responsibility for the contract to Ms. Noem. President Trump fired her in March, and appointed Markwayne Mullin, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, as secretary.
Three of the aircraft are luxury business jets. Just months after acquiring them, the department sought to loan or lease two to other agencies, including one for the use of F.B.I. director Kash Patel.
The other seven are older Boeing 737 passenger jets, which the government has left parked at an airport in Lake Charles, La., for months at a time. An internal government document, obtained by The New York Times, said the agency did not have the staff necessary to operate them.
The company that received this contract, Daedalus Aviation Corporation, is led by a chairman who had donated to a political committee supporting the previous Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem.
The situation with the planes was reminiscent of the department’s about-face on a plan to acquire warehouses to hold detainees. The department spent heavily on those when Ms. Noem was secretary but reversed itself just months later under Mr. Mullin. The department is now giving away or selling seven warehouses that it bought for more than $700 million.
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That was on top of those glamorous ads featuring her on horseback that were part of a ($200 million!) marketing campaign that went to a political buddy of hers.
I'd love to see her investigated.
Gee, another thread for TDS trolls to circle jerk.
Grow up, potty mouth.
Why? He's right.
Will disagree. But that’s what FR is about - differing viewpoints.
Uninquiring minds don’t want to know.
Is it TDS if the article is true?
By the way, I did notice that the article is from the New York Times. The NYT is not a neutral news source, to say the least.
The FBI, CIA, DOJ, maintain a fleet of more than a thousand planes. Most are exec-jets, like Falcons, Gulfstream, Lear, Beechcraft King Airs, Cesna Citations. And of course staff them with pilots, flight attendants, and catering. It’s insane.
Noem has always been a low class train wreck. She proves it again.
You grow up. He’s right. FR has become a safe haven for TDS fools.
Keep the planes for when it’s needed and if necessary, spare parts because they don’t make C-32’s anymore.
Do they remain unused because every 5 minutes a O’Biden judge stops deportations?
Also. Finding 500 flight crews on short notice is not that easy. Especially when it is a temp job. And how many of the flight crew would get black balled by the evil democrats.
You better watch what you post, as a start, she'll shoot your dog and after that...
She was such a grifter and a ho and was married to a guy? that wears falsies.
We never knew the truth about this woman, {and I never held the shooting of her dog against her}.
Nobody is neutral. All have priors and a pov.
Thanks W. /s (globalist pos)
Time to deport more. And faster.
he department is now giving away or selling seven warehouses that it bought for more than $700 million.
I don’t for a minute beleive that the government is giving away warehouses.
The scandal is not the money on airplanes, but the money on DETENTION CENTERS.
It is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT, to be in the US. Illegals to be deported should be put on those planes and deported immediately. They should not be in expensive DETENTION CENTERS. Their PRIVILEGE to be in the US should be revoked.
Unwanted immigrants with VISA or NATURALIZATION may have contract terms that require a DETENTION CENTER and court appearance. But those visa and naturalization conditions should include:
1) Deportation of those who give aid and comfort to the enemy, to terrorists.
2) Deportation of murderers, rapists...DUI, Drunk n Disorderly
3) Deportation of those who apply for welfare or government benefits.
Deportation should be mean and lean. We should not spend taxpayer money on those who work hard, take care of their family, sit beside us in church.
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