Kristi Noem Outlines Deportation Timelines At Alligator Alcatraz: ‘We Can Put Them On A Plane That Day’

During a press gaggle on Tuesday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem spoke about the timeline of deporting individuals at Alligator Alcatraz.

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00:00How fast does that take from a minute?

00:02Let's say they get in here and they're like, hey, I want to stay here.

00:03I want to go back to.

00:04We can put them on a plane that day and take them home.

00:06We'll buy their plane ticket, go home, and then they get the chance to come back legally.

00:10If they wait and say we're not going to do that.

00:12If they do that, they can come back legally after a period.

00:14Mr. President, you've talked recently about the idea of finding some way to get farm workforce

00:20and service sector workforce.

00:22And I think you've discussed somehow a program of people leaving on a sponsorship and coming right back.

00:27Can you give us a little more detail about that and why, in the view of some hardliners, it's not.

00:33We're going to take care of our farmers and hotel workers and various other people.

00:36We're working on it right now.

00:38Ron's going to be involved, and you're involved already.

00:41So we have a case, a lot of cases, where ICE will go into a farm.

00:47And these are guys working there for 10, 15 years.

00:49No problem.

00:50The farmer's on.

00:51We're going to put this both farmer responsibility or owner responsibility.

00:55But they're going to be largely responsible for these people.

00:58And they know these people.

00:59They've worked on the farms for 15 years, and all of a sudden they've.

01:03So I have a great, Ron does, Mr. President does, we have a great feeling for the farmer

01:08and for others in the same position.

01:10And we're going to give them responsibility for people.

01:13And we're going to have a system of signing them up so they don't have to go.

01:16They can be here legally.

01:18They can pay taxes and everything.

01:20They're not getting citizenship.

01:20But they get other things.

01:23And the farmers need them to do the work.

01:25Without those people, you're not going to be able to write your farm.

01:28But, Mr. President.