Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her top adviser, Corey Lewandowski, ordered ten Spirit Airlines jets to ramp up deportations—and to use for their own leisure—before realizing the airline didn’t own the planes, and that the planes had no engines.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that the pair signed off on the expensive endeavor even as officials suggested that simply hiring additional flight contractors would be far less costly.

Noem’s blunder is one small part of her efforts to up deportation numbers, as she is reportedly looking to replicate the public spectacle currently unfolding in Chicago, dubbed “Midway Blitz,” the Journal reported.

Blunder aside, DHS forged ahead with more plans to increase deportation flights, recently purchasing two Gulfstream jets for $200

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