Michelle Hackman

He would basically follow other people into DHS buildings so he didn't have to swipe himself in.

So that way he wouldn't count a day.

Anytime he traveled with the secretary, he didn't count that toward his 130 days.

And so he kept extending this

It's got only 18 seats, and it's got a private cabin in back.

Now, in DHS paperwork, this thing is earmarked for high-profile deportations.

But we were told that this was the plane that Chrissy Noem and Corey Lewandowski were flying around in.

Basically, they set up this rule that said any contract over $100,000 had to receive personal sign-off from them.

Now, that might sound like a good government strategy.

You know, $100,000 is a big chunk of change.

But DHS is a multi-billion dollar agency.

Yeah.

There are a lot of very big checks.

And $100,000 in government really doesn't buy you very much.

And so what's happening over the last few months is that contracts were just piling up on Kristi Noem's desk to the point where, you know, all sorts of things very nearly expired or did expire.

She, you know, for months, she had been promoting, again, a sort of really showy, confrontational form of immigration enforcement.

She engaged, you know, this guy named Greg Bovino in the Border Patrol to lead these operations where he would send agents out in huge roving bands to look for people.

I mean, very different from how

traditional immigration enforcement is done, where you have sort of specific targets and it's kind of limited.

And you saw that sort of extremely over-the-top confrontational approach culminate in two deadly shootings of American citizens