ICE currently contracts with various companies to charter planes for its deportation flights, which can cost nearly $27,000 per flight hour.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is pushing for ICE to use an influx of funds to buy and operate its own fleet of planes to deport immigrants.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants to buy planes for Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would be dedicated to deporting as many migrants as possible, according to a new report from NBC News. And it seems extremely likely that she’ll get them, given the fact that recent legislation allocated billions in new funding for ICE.