Kristi Noem Reportedly Authorized Purchase Of Planes That Were Missing 1 Key Component (engines)
Earlier DU threads:
• Noem wanted to buy Spirit Airlines planes - except the airline didn't own them...and they didn't have engines
• Kristi Noem Reportedly Authorized Purchase Of Planes That Were Missing 1 Key Component
• ICE Barbie and 'Lover' Hatched Bonkers Plan to Buy Fleet of Jets
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Source: HuffPost
Kristi Noem Reportedly Authorized Purchase Of Planes That Were Missing 1 Key Component
The Secretary of Homeland Security sought to purchase 10 Spirit Airlines planes for deportation purposes, The Wall Street Journal reported. But planes need engines to fly.
By Sebastian Murdock
Nov 8, 2025, 02:01 PM EST
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reportedly authorized the purchase of 10 Spirit Airlines planes before she realized that the airlines didn’t own the planes. Also, none of the planes came with engines.
The detail comes from a new report in The Wall Street Journal on Friday about the infighting between members of President Donald Trump’s administration over how to increase deportations of immigrants.
Noem, along with Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski, had recently planned to buy 10 Boeing 737 jets from the budget airline, Spirit Airlines. The plan was to use the jets to deport immigrants that have been snatched off the streets by masked agents under orders from Trump.
Sources told the Journal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials had already cautioned the two that buying the planes would be more expensive than just expanding existing flight contracts. And when officials looked at the proposal, they noticed that Spirit Airlines didn’t actually own the planes, and that none of the planes came with engines.
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