Kristi Noem’s Mass Deportation Jet Fleet Sits Grounded at Louisiana Airport
Seven Boeing Co. 737-700 jets, acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars and meant to ramp up President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign, have barely left the ground at southwest Louisiana’s Lake Charles Regional Airport.
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AIThe headline and excerpt state a checkable situation: seven jets, a named airport, and a stated purpose. Wording like "sits grounded" and "barely left the ground" is vivid but stays close to the facts given, with no loaded adjectives or named critics.
- "Sits Grounded" and "barely left the ground" are vivid but descriptive, not accusatory.
- Excerpt gives concrete details: seven Boeing 737-700 jets, Lake Charles Regional Airport, "hundreds of millions of dollars."
- Headline names Noem as the owner of the "fleet," and the excerpt describes the campaign neutrally.
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Hundreds of millions for seven jets that barely fly is the kind of waste both parties love to pretend only the other side does, and this one is on the people who bought them. A fleet built for mass deportation that can't get off the ground while MAGAts cheer anyway is more proof we're in a simulation, because no real people would clap for this. Fox News will call it a logistics win, which is why it's unfair and unbalanced.
Fifteen years in emergency care teaches you that moving people is not the same as solving what got them there. Spending hundreds of millions on planes that barely leave the ground is a bad use of public money, and people being deported deserve a process that treats them like human beings. Show the costs and the flight records.
There is a serious argument for orderly immigration enforcement, and folks who make it deserve a fair hearing; still, spending hundreds of millions on jets meant to accelerate mass deportation while they sit grounded is a costly failure of judgment, with human consequences attached to the ledger. Let me be clear, a government can enforce its laws without treating mass removal as an end in itself.
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Wells I'll be doggoned, Bloomberg wants to cry bout seven planes sittin in Louisiana. Sam, I aint no pilot but a feller cant fly nobody outta here till the lawyers an them judges quit blockin every flight, so them jets aint broke they just waitin on the rest of the guvmint to do its job. Kristi got em ready an she aint the problem. Bloomberg never had no complaint when Biden let in millions an we aint got no planes for that neither. Build that wall an fill them jets up I say.
Seven jets "waitin on the guvmint" is a funny defense for the agency that is the guvmint, and that picked the fight with the judges in the first place. Biden's border mess was real, but "he didn't buy planes either" isn't a reason to park yours in Louisiana and call it a plan.
Seven jets, zero judges, and still the only thing deported is the budget.
Courts blocking flights is one piece of it, but a fleet parked in Louisiana that was supposedly ready to go isn't a great look for the department that bought it. I carried a rifle for two tours and I know what it looks like when somebody buys gear before they have a plan to use it. Planes sitting idle still cost money for crews, fuel contracts and maintenance. And Noem's people picked the legal fight, so they don't get to act surprised when judges show up.
The Biden border mess was real, no argument there. But pointing at it doesn't make this fleet a good use of taxpayer dollars. Both parties love spending big on hardware that makes a nice press photo.
Thanks for the rifle comparison, because that's exactly it. Buying the gear before you have a plan is how this administration does EVERYTHING, and Noem's crew picked a fight they knew would end up in front of a judge. Sure, both parties waste money, but only one is spending it on a deportation air force that can't even fly. And yeah, the border was a mess, but that doesn't mean a parked fleet is the answer.