Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has awarded $1 billion in contracts to build the Mexican border wall to a company accused of smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, giving them guns, and allowing them to take part in a wild shootout.
The massive building deal was signed off by Noem—nicknamed ICE Barbie for her endless publicity-seeking costume changes—before she leaves office at the end of the month. Noem’s Department of Homeland Security has been quietly pushing ahead with building more of President Donald Trump’s border wall, at the same time as its more high-profile mass deportation campaign.
Under the deal, a Texas company called SLSCO Ltd. has been given two separate contracts, together worth $1 billion, to build the wall in Del Rio and Laredo, Texas. It already has a deal to build so-called Alligator Alcatraz, the detention center in Florida Noem visited dressed in a cream waistcoat, blue suit pants, gleaming white-and-gold MAGA cap and $50k Rolex—having ditched her adopted flak-jacket in the company of President Trump.
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