But ICE Barbie wants a special fleet of planes all for deportations.

Will she dress up as a pilot and pretend to fly the plane?

There are a lot of used ones belonging to airlines in storage at Marana, AZ, but most of those haven't been flown in years and some don't have engines. It would take months and months and a lot of money to make them usable. Maybe the Air Force has some ancient C-130s or even DC-3s but who cares if they are actually safe? ICE Barbie can't just snap her expensively-manicured fingers and have dozens of airplanes delivered. Also, it's stupid to buy airplanes outright when they can be leased or chartered because if you own them you're responsible for all the maintenance, upkeep and storage even when you're not using them.

Spirit airlines owns a fleet of Airbus A-320’s and is about to go belly up.

In walks an operator for the entire fleet (DHS) , stockholders get paid off, and Noam has her fleet of planes.

The U.S. government turned down their request to merge with Jet Blue. That basically set them up for limited options. Today, Spirit has 141 aircraft, including 35 older aircraft parked, and 30 newer aircraft less than 2 years old in the mix. They could pump out 40 or 50 airplanes to DHS, and still fly most of their present routes.

That could be a source, though I'm not sure the A320 is the best airplane for DHS' purposes unless they gut the interiors to make them as uncomfortable as possible for the deportees.

imprisoned in fucking El Salvador or in active warzones in Sudan, Rwanda, or any number of random-ass "shithole countries" (to use Trump's own words) they have no ties to whatsoever.

This regime hasn't explained that shit at ALL, and yet they keep saying they're sending people "home" or "back where they came." It's such a steaming crock of shit.

This country has become the real shithole.

But remember, no money for Medicaid and Medicare,no money for SNAP, PBS had to go etc,etc....

Spending money like crazy, diverting already allocated funds to their special projects, eliminating a third of the workforce by deportation and stopping visas, and destroying the White House, to name a few steps in that direction.