Left: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testifies before the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, on May 6. Right: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, along with other federal law enforcement agencies, attend a pre-enforcement meeting in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters; Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"The other day, I was talking to some marshals who have been partnering with ICE. They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home. And while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself, and they had to get him off and get him medical attention," said the secretary.
"These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we're trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged they don’t belong here," Noem went on. "They shouldn't be walking the streets with our children, and they shouldn't be living in the communities with our families who just want to… raise their children to grow up and get a job, and to live the American dream."
"We are going after murderers and rapists and traffickers and drug dealers and getting them off the streets and getting them out of this country," she said.
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President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem walk through a medical facility section as they tour a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025. (Getty)
"It's exactly what we need to be perpetuating in other states," added Noem.
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DHS, ICE and the U.S. Marshals did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the incident.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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