Surprise, surprise: Homeland Security Kristi Noem completely made up that far-fetched story about deporting a cannibal, multiple federal law enforcement officials told The Intercept.
Speaking to Fox News’s Jesse Watters in June, Noem recounted a terrible tale she claimed to have heard from a U.S. air marshal about a cannibal who tried to “eat his own arms” while being deported out of the country. Noem later repeated the story as she and Donald Trump toured Alligator Alcatraz, the president’s wetland-themed concentration camp in the Florida Everglades.
At the time, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE wouldn’t respond to requests to confirm Noem’s story. Now, multiple federal law enforcement officials—including one from the DHS—are saying it’s a lie, The Intercept reported Monday.
“That is completely made up,” a senior federal law enforcement official told The Intercept. “That never happened.”
Two other federal law enforcement officials said there was absolutely no evidence to corroborate Noem’s story. One source told The Intercept that officials went to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations to ask about the incident. “There was no information about it. It never took place. It’s a lie,” the source said.
When asked about whether they believed the story actually came from an air marshal or the secretary, one official was certain that it had come from the secretary.
The story never sounded particularly true. When pressed for more details at the time of her original telling, Noem couldn’t summon a single one. “He said he was literally eating his own arms. That for him, he was, that is what he did. He called himself a cannibal, ate other people, and ate himself,” she stammered. She said the man was taken off the flight to receive medical attention and then put back into the system.
Noem had used the chronicle of the cannibal as an example of the “kind of deranged individuals” who were being removed as part of Trump’s sweeping deportation efforts.
There is ample evidence to suggest that a cannibal is not the kind of person the Trump administration is deporting. CBS News reported that less than 14 percent of the immigrants arrested by ICE during Trump’s first year back in office have charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses.
Noem’s fake cannibal is just one of the many dangerous lies being peddled by DHS—as calls for her resignation continue to mount.
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