DHS Acquires Fleet of Jets to Facilitate Mass Deportations
DHS Acquires Fleet of Jets to Facilitate Mass Deportations
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The Department of Homeland Security has entered into a new agreement to acquire six Boeing 737 aircraft for use in deportation operations, the agency said Wednesday. DHS officials said the purchase is expected to reduce transportation costs and save taxpayers an estimated $279 million.
The agreement is valued at nearly $140 million, according to sources who spoke with The Washington Post, and is being financed in part with funds appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security through the One Big Beautiful Bill enacted earlier this year.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has historically relied on charter aircraft for removal operations. DHS officials say the addition of a dedicated fleet is intended to make large-scale deportation flights more efficient and reduce overall transportation costs as the administration expands its enforcement efforts, Just the News added.
“These planes will allow ICE to operate more effectively, including by using more efficient flight patterns,” Assistant DHS Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin posted on X. “President Trump and [Homeland Security] Secretary [Kristi] Noem are committed to quickly and efficiently getting criminal illegal aliens OUT of our country.”
The announcement comes as the Trump administration pursues its goal of removing one million migrants by the end of the year. According to border czar Tom Homan, federal authorities have carried out approximately 579,000 deportations to date, and an additional 66,000 migrants remain in detention awaiting processing, Just the News added.
AdvertisementTrump administration officials are increasingly aggressive when it comes to curbing both legal and illegal immigration to the United States following the deadly attack on National Guard troops late last month by an Afghan national let into the country under then-President Joe Biden.
Noem has stated that she will recommend a travel ban on several countries that she claims are contributing significantly to criminal activity in the U.S.
AdvertisementShe said in a post on social media on Sunday that she had met with President Donald Trump and decided to suggest “a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”
Trump and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared Noem’s post on their official social media accounts. It is currently unclear which countries the proposed travel ban would affect or when it might be implemented. DHS informed the BBC that it would announce the list soon.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Monday evening that President Trump had already imposed a travel ban several months ago targeting what the administration described as “third world and failed state” countries. Noem’s new recommendations would broaden the policy to include additional nations.
On 4 June, the White House released a list of 19 countries — primarily in Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean — that would be subject to full or partial immigration restrictions.
Noem’s proposed additions would bring the total to roughly 30 countries, according to multiple U.S. officials who spoke with CBS News, the BBC’s U.S. partner.
Before addressing the travel-ban proposal, Noem wrote on social media that roughly 100,000 Afghan nationals entered the United States through the Biden-era Operation Allies Welcome program, adding that the Department of Homeland Security planned to overhaul its vetting procedures.
Officials have identified the suspect in the Washington, D.C., shooting as an Afghan national who arrived in 2021 under the same program, which was created to resettle Afghans who had assisted U.S. forces during the country’s 20-year military presence in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, FBI Director Kash Patel criticized what he described as the Biden administration’s “emblematic failure” following the Nov. 26 shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., during an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle.”
“The problem with this case shows the emblematic failure of the Biden administration to vet anyone who came here from Afghanistan after the disastrous withdrawal,” Patel said.
One of the individuals attacked, 24-year-old Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, is still recovering and in critical condition, while a fellow member from the West Virginia Army National Guard, 20-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, died from her wounds.
SHOTS FIRED: Trump Nukes ‘Seriously Retarded’ Gov. Walz
SHOTS FIRED: Trump Nukes ‘Seriously Retarded’ Gov. Walz
President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering Thanksgiving message targeting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, using the holiday to escalate his warnings about mass migration, Somali crime, and what he calls the total collapse of leadership in Minnesota. The late-night barrage came just hours after Trump vowed to permanently pause migration from poorer nations following the fatal shooting of a National Guard member in Washington, D.C.
Trump, 79, tore into Walz as a “seriously retarded governor,” accusing him of allowing waves of Somali migrants to overwhelm what he described as a “once great state.” The comments, posted to Truth Social, marked one of Trump’s most aggressive takedowns of Walz to date and reflected growing tensions over Minnesota’s recent surge in violent gang activity.
In his Thanksgiving message, Trump accused Walz of surrendering Minneapolis and surrounding communities to organized Somali gangs. “Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone,” he wrote.
Trump claimed Walz has done nothing to restore order, adding, “The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both.” Supporters of the president amplified the post across conservative media, arguing that Trump is expressing the anger and fear of Minnesota residents who feel abandoned by their own government.
The former governor of Minnesota and running mate to Kamala Harris during her failed presidential bid, Walz has long drawn criticism from conservatives for his handling of crime, migration, and policing. Trump has repeatedly argued that Walz’s permissive migration policies fueled a demographic and criminal crisis.
Trump also directed fire at Rep. Ilhan Omar, calling her the “worst ‘Congressman/woman’ in our country” and mocking her appearance as “always wrapped in her swaddling hijab.” He then suggested Omar “probably came into the USA illegally,” repeating longstanding claims he and his allies have made about Omar’s immigration history.
Minnesota progressives responded with outrage, while Walz countered Trump’s attack by sarcastically questioning the president’s own health. “Release the MRI results,” Walz wrote on X, referencing Trump’s recent medical checkup, which the president publicly described as “perfect.”
Pro-migration activists staged demonstrations across Minnesota in response to Trump’s comments. Protesters held signs reading “NO HATE NO FEAR” and accused the administration of targeting immigrants to score political points.
Trump’s message came amid fallout from Wednesday’s deadly attack in Washington, D.C., where a 29-year-old Afghan national—resettled under Biden’s “Operation Allies Welcome” program—allegedly shot two National Guard members deployed to protect federal sites. One Guardswoman, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, died of her injuries. The second soldier remains in critical condition.
According to federal authorities, the suspect had worked with the CIA during the Afghanistan War before entering the United States in 2021. His case has fueled Trump’s renewed push to overhaul migration policy, halt immigration from so-called “third world countries,” and initiate what he calls “reverse migration.”
“Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation,” Trump wrote, tying the shooting directly to what he describes as failed vetting practices under the previous administration.
The president ended his fiery message on a cold note aimed at his political enemies. “Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!”
The Thanksgiving post marks a significant escalation in Trump’s second-term immigration agenda, pairing emotional appeals with sweeping proposals to aggressively restrict migration, review past admissions, and remove foreign nationals deemed harmful to national security.
With crime spikes in Minnesota, a high-profile terror investigation underway, and mounting pressure from supporters to act, Trump’s message signals that the administration’s immigration crackdown is about to intensify—and that political opponents like Walz and Omar remain in his direct line of fire.
"""My husband brought his mistress to our daughter’s wedding—and then asked me to give her my seat beside him.
"""My husband brought his mistress to our daughter’s wedding—and then asked me to give her my seat beside him. For a few seconds, I honestly thought I was looking at the wrong table, because my name card had vanished and Melissa’s was sitting exactly where mine had been on every seating chart. She wore a pale blue silk dress, lifted her champagne as if she belonged there, and avoided my eyes when I stopped beside the chair. David stood up, pointed to an empty seat at the next table, and quietly said, “For tonight, why don’t you sit over there?”
I had spent fourteen months helping our daughter, Emily, plan that wedding, from dress fittings and florist meetings to late-night calls over napkins and seating charts. That morning, while I fastened the pearl buttons on her gown, she made me promise I would enjoy the day and not let anything between her father and me touch it. I meant that promise, because whatever was left of my marriage, I would not make my daughter’s wedding the battlefield where it died. But David had apparently made a different plan, and he expected me to cooperate with it in silence.
When I asked what Melissa was doing there, David’s face showed guilt for only a second before he hid it behind irritation. He acted as though I were creating the problem simply by noticing that his mistress was seated at the family table in the place reserved for the bride’s mother. Then Melissa looked at me and said, “Honey, today really isn’t the day to make Emily uncomfortable.” I almost laughed, because the woman who had been sleeping with my husband for nearly a year was now warning me not to embarrass my own daughter.
I could feel people settling into nearby seats, laughing and talking, unaware that my marriage was being quietly rearranged in front of them. David kept his voice low and told me we should not “do this here,” as if the humiliation belonged to me because I refused to disappear politely. I looked at the empty chair he had chosen for me between a cousin and someone from the groom’s side, and I realized something colder than anger. This was not spontaneous; he had thought about where Melissa would sit, and he had assumed I would move.
For twenty-eight years, I had been the woman who adjusted, explained, forgave, and made excuses when David forgot anniversaries, missed dinners, or put work ahead of family. When he became distant, I learned to expect less instead of asking for more, and somewhere along the way he mistook that patience for permission. Even now, part of me considered taking the other chair, smiling for photographs, swallowing the humiliation, and telling myself it was all for Emily. I actually reached for the chair because protecting my daughter still mattered more to me than winning a public fight.
Then I heard one word behind me: “Mom?” Emily was walking toward us in her wedding dress, still glowing from the ceremony, and at first she looked confused rather than angry. Her eyes moved from me, to the empty chair, to Melissa, then back to the family table where she had personally placed me months ago. David quickly stepped in and announced that he had “rearranged a few things,” as if changing the bride’s seating chart without permission were no more serious than moving a centerpiece.
Emily asked why I was not sitting in my seat, and David casually pointed to the neighboring table and said I would be sitting “right there.” Her smile disappeared, and her eyes dropped to the place card in front of Melissa. I watched my daughter’s expression go completely still as she picked up that card and turned it over in her hand. In that instant, I understood the worst part: Emily had not approved this, and David had brought his mistress into our daughter’s wedding believing he could force everyone to accept what he wanted once it was already done.
What Emily did not know was that six months earlier, I had discovered David’s affair through a message that appeared on his phone while he was in the shower. Melissa had written, “I hate pretending I don’t miss you when she’s around,” followed by another message asking whether Friday was still theirs. When I confronted him, David spent eleven minutes calling me paranoid, insecure, dramatic, suspicious, and unfair before I repeated Melissa’s words exactly. The silence that followed ended our marriage long before either of us ever said the word divorce.
We had kept the details quiet because Emily was planning her wedding, and I refused to turn her happiest season into a crisis about us. David told me he was “confused,” that what he had with Melissa was “more complicated than an affair,” and that he needed time before making decisions. I agreed only that Emily’s wedding came first, so we slept in separate rooms, spoke carefully, and tried to appear functional while our marriage quietly collapsed. I believed David understood that one day required restraint, but he had apparently used that silence to prepare something else.
Three weeks before the wedding, he had casually asked whether Emily had finalized the family table and whether every seat had been assigned. At the time, I thought it was harmless conversation, but standing there with Melissa’s card in my daughter’s hand, I finally understood why he had asked. He had been checking whether there would be room, and when there was not, he simply removed me. Emily looked up at her father and asked, very quietly, “Where is Mom’s place card?”—and for the first time that night, David had no easy answer.
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