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Report Disputes Kristi Noem’s Account of Alleged Deportee Incident
Multiple federal law enforcement officials say DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's story about a cannibal deportee aboard an ICE flight is fabricated and unsupported by any records.
- Federal law enforcement officials told The Intercept on Monday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's cannibal deportation story was fabricated.
- Standing beside President Donald Trump, Noem recounted the story on Fox News and at a press conference, citing a U.S. marshal or air marshal.
- Checks with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and the U.S. Marshals Service found no records or corroborating evidence, with one source saying `There was no information about it.`
- Lawmakers are calling for Noem's resignation as bipartisan efforts and impeachment articles gain traction amid the story's debunking, a senior official said the story was fabricated.
- By using the lurid anecdote, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem framed immigrant communities as `deranged individuals,` while the debunking echoes historical use of cannibalism claims and damages DHS credibility.
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US Homeland Security boss demonised deportation victim as 'cannibal' - it was a total lie
In 2025 the disgraced, but still in place, US Homeland Security (DHS) boss Kristi Noem’s claimed on far-right Fox News that a victim of her and her boss Donald Trump’s deportation war on brown people was a cannibal. Not satisfied with that, she then claimed the man tried to eat himself as he was flown out of the US on an ‘ICE’ plane: [This is the] kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America, that we’re trying to target and ge…
DHS Officials Say Secretary Noem Crossed a Line With 'Obviously Utterly False' Story of Cannibal on Deportation Flight
Three federal law enforcement officials, including one senior official within the Department of Homeland Security, say DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fabricated a story about a cannibal on an ICE deportation flight.
Kristi Noem's outlandish cannibal migrant tale exposed as 'lie': 'Completely made up'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's sensational story about a self-cannibalistic immigrant on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight never happened, according to a new report.Noem spun the lurid yarn over the summer while standing beside President Donald Trump at a news conference and later told Fox News' Jesse Watters that federal agents had "detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home."“The other da…
Surprising no one, Kristi Noem's cannibal deportee story 'completely made up'
Refuting one of the most bizarre claims from Trump‘s Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, multiple federal law enforcement sources have now told The Intercept that Noem’s story about an alleged cannibal deportee was “completely made up” and never happened. According to sources cited in The Intercept — including a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the matter — Noem’s dramatic anecdote about Immigration and Customs E…
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