DHS Secretary Kristi Noem reportedly wants to use funds in order to buy a fleet of airplanes that would be owned and operated by ICE. These planes would be used to drastically speed up deportations of illegal immigrants. Check it out: BREAKING: DHS is considering buying their OWN fleet of airplanes to rapidly increase the rate of deportation flights, per NBC This is EXACTLY where I want my tax dollars going. Mass deportations are a MUST! pic.twitter.com/dNccXIaQFH — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 20, 2025 BREAKING: DHS is considering buying its OWN FLEET of airplanes to expedite deportations! This would SUPERCHARGE deportations and it should ABSOLUTELY be done! They ALL have to go home! pic.twitter.com/x0jUODYghb — Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) August 20, 2025 Having their own fleet of airplanes could boost ICE deportations up by twice the current numbers. NBC News reported: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is pushing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use an influx of funds to buy, own and operate its own fleet of airplanes to deport immigrants, two sources familiar with the discussions told NBC News. Former officials said that ICE owning and maintaining its own planes would be costly but could make it easier for the agency to potentially double the number of people it deports each month. ICE uses charter planes to deport immigrants and has done so for years. The agency has typically chartered eight to 14 planes at a time for deportation flights, according to Jason Houser, who served as ICE chief of staff from 2022 to 2023. He said that allowed the Biden administration to deport roughly 15,000 immigrants per month on charter flights. “If the goal is to get to 30 to 35,000 removals a month, you would need to double the number of planes,” Houser said, or purchase roughly 30 planes. With a guaranteed set of 30 or more planes, ICE wouldn’t be constrained by the limits of the companies it contracts with, which charter their planes to multiple clients. However, purchasing a fleet of planes would be expensive, costing billions of dollars. NBC News has the numbers: It can cost $80 million to $400 million to buy a commercial airliner, according to aviation experts at the Pilot Institute, a company that trains pilots. Purchasing 30 passenger jets at that price range could cost $2.4 billion to $12 billion, but it’s unclear if ICE could lower the price per plane by buying a large number of them. Right now, ICE pays charter plans thousands of dollars per hour to deport illegal immigrants. From Forbes: Daily scheduled charter flights used by ICE have an average cost of $8,577 per flight hour, with special high-risk charter flights costing between $6,929 and $26,795 per flight hour depending on aircraft requirements, according to ICE estimates. Keep in mind that ICE was given roughly $30 billion for enforcement and deportation operations in President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (in addition to $45 billion for deportation facilities.) What do you think? Would you support some of that money be spent on buying a dedicated fleet of airplanes for ICE?