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A bar, kitchen and flat-screen TVs: the $70m jet DHS is eyeing for deportations (www.theguardian.com)

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A $70m aircraft the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eyeing for deportation flights has a luxurious interior and will be used to transport Trump administration officials to engagements in comfort, according to a report published Friday.

NBC News obtained images of the Boeing 737-8 Max plane showing a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and a bar.

According to the report, some DHS officials are privately questioning the necessity of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) buying the jet it currently leases. One official told NBC anonymously that the department’s stated plan to use the aircraft alternately as a ferry for senior government members and for deporting immigration detainees was “far-fetched”.

ICE deportation flights usually involve transporting more than 100 shackled detainees at a time, plus guards, medical staff and flight crews. The Boeing plane that DHS reportedly wants to buy, meanwhile, has space for a maximum of 18 passengers, and can sleep 14 people, according to marketing materials obtained by NBC.

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[–] Trudge@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago

flat-screen TVs

in which nursing home was this written?