Noem shared the disturbing anecdote while visiting the "Alligator Alcatraz" deportation camp in the South Florida Everglades alongside President Trump.
"The other day I was talking to some [US] Marshals that had been partnering with ICE," Noem recounted. "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."
Noem, the former governor of South Dakota, used the story to argue that federal agents are targeting the worst of the worst illegal migrants in the US — rather than hard-working, upstanding community members, as critics of the administration claim.