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Donald Trump’s administration is buying six Boeing 737 aircraft for support President’s mass deportation agendais giving the Department of Homeland Security its own fleet of jetliners to speed up removals rather than relying on charter flights.
Most evacuation flights are arranged under Immigration and Customs EnforcementAir Operations, which hires private charter companies for transfers detained immigrants Deport them across the country or elsewhere.
But for the first time, ICE is buying its own deportation planes. The $140 million deal with the Daedalus Aviation firm saves the government money “by allowing ICE to operate more effectively by using more efficient flight patterns,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. Washington PostWho first reported the transaction.
He said the deal is “one of the cost-effective and innovative ways to meet the mandate of the American people for mass deportation of criminal illegal aliens.”
The Trump administration has set a goal of expelling one million people from the country by the end of the president’s first year in office. ICE is on pace to deport more than 600,000 people by the end of the year, while nearly 70,000 remain in ICE custody in detention centers across the country.
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Boeing deal with Daedalus Aviation draws more cash $170 billion earmarked for President’s anti-immigration agenda Inside the massive domestic spending bill that the President signed into law earlier this year.
That huge investment of taxpayer dollars has allowed Homeland Security to spend huge sums on ICE operations competition for recruitment to add thousands More eviction officers in the ranks and expanding the capacity of detention facilities Put more people in jail.
The CEO of the Virginia-based company has a similar role with Salus Worldwide Solutions, which received a nearly $1 billion contract from Homeland Security to support the government’s “self-deportation” efforts.
The administration’s latest deal with Daedalus does not yet appear in government databases.
As of the end of October, ICE has overseen more than 1,700 deportation flights to 77 countries since Trump took office, according to Human Rights First, an immigrant rights advocacy group.
But ICE also transports thousands of people internally, including moving immigrants from detention centers to staging facilities where they await their removal.
Louisiana serves as the nation’s largest deportation centerOne of its nine detention centers is built next to the airport tarmac. Within the first seven months of Trump’s second presidency, more than 40,000 people passed through the facility, either on their way to another detention center or deported from the country.
Meanwhile, Trump has made purchases Boeing holds approximately $6 million worth of corporate bondsEven though his administration gives contracts worth billions of dollars to the company.
According to financial disclosures, the President purchased $1 million to $5 million worth of Boeing bonds on August 28, and a month later purchased Boeing bonds worth between $500,000 and $1 million.
He appears to have purchased at least $185 million worth of corporate and municipal bonds since the beginning of his presidency.
Trump’s Justice Department has also dropped a criminal conspiracy case against Boeing after 737 Max jetliner crashes that killed 356 people.