A rumor claimed that Kristi Noem revealed during a press conference that a detained immigrant tried to eat himself during an ICE deportation flight

The troupe included Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem, who took the opportunity to spin fear around immigrants and support for her agency's policy of mass deportation by telling the story of a cannibal migrant who supposedly began to eat himself on a deportation flight: "The other day I was talking to some marshals that have been partnering with ICE.

The Homeland Security Secretary on Tuesday, July 1 claimed that, a cannibal immigrant allegedly began eating his arm, during a deportation flight.