Lyons also reportedly discussed using AI to “free up bed space” and “fill up airplanes” and  mentioned working with Elon Musk’s DOGE to gain access to social security numbers to look for “voter fraud.”

Also at the convention were Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, and the secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, who both praised Trump’s controversial invocation of the Alien Enemies Act — a law dating back to 1798 and most recently used during World War II to intern Japanese Americans — for facilitating the deportation of Venezuelan nationals.