This Week at DHS: Project Homecoming Flights and Coast Guard Force Design 2028, May 27, 2025

Name: "This Week at DHS: Project Homecoming Flights and Coast Guard Force Design 2028, May 27, 2025"
Uploaded: 2025-05-27
Duration: 2 min 51 s
Description: "A U.S. Coast Guard captain narrated the Department of Homeland Security's weekly recap on May 27, 2025, reporting a Project Homecoming self-deportation flight from Texas, an ICE press conference on removed criminal aliens, and Secretary Noem's announcement of Coast Guard Force Design 2028 at the Coast Guard Academy commencement, according to the Department of Homeland Security."

May 27, 2025 · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · 0:02:51

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What happened

The Department of Homeland Security released its weekly recap, narrated by U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jonathan Carter, on May 27, 2025, according to the department’s posting. Carter reported, as the recap states it, that a flight departed Texas carrying Colombian and Honduran nationals returning to their home countries under Project Homecoming, having chosen, as the recap describes it, to leave voluntarily using the CBP Home app — which the recap calls the easiest and safest way to leave the United States, saving enforcement resources and taxpayer money and preserving a chance to return legally one day. He also reported, as the recap states it, that after a flight of violent criminal aliens departed, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons and DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin held a press conference detailing their crimes.

Carter further reported, as the recap states it, that Secretary Noem addressed the Coast Guard Academy Class of 2025, congratulated the graduates, and presented Force Design 2028 as an ambitious plan to transform the Coast Guard into the finest, most flexible, and most efficient maritime fighting force, and that President Trump’s nominee for the service’s 28th commandant was announced to lead the service through the change amid rising recruiting numbers. The recap closed, as it states it, with the department honoring Memorial Day and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

Why it matters

The weekly recap is DHS’s own bundled record of its immigration-enforcement and Coast Guard programs in a single week of May 2025 — Project Homecoming’s self-deportation model and Force Design 2028 both stated in the department’s words.

Sources: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “U.S. Coast Guard Captain Jonathan Carter reports on This Week at DHS:”, 2025-05-27 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-05-27). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.