In its latest splurge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will spend nearly $140 million on six Boeing 737 planes to deport immigrants. The new DHS planes are intended to cut costs "by allowing ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to operate more effectively," Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told The Washington Post. The planes will be purchased with funding granted by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was signed into law in July and appropriated $170 billion for immigration enforcement.

Under President Donald Trump, the DHS has been tasked with deporting 1 million people by the end of the year. According to data analyzed by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data gathering, research, and distribution organization at Syracuse University,

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