Donald Trump said Saturday he will deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to US airports on Monday if an agreement isn’t reached to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid a partial government shutdown.
It is unclear what function the ICE agents would perform since they’re not trained in airport security screening. TSA screeners have a several months-long training period before they’re on the job, though airline employees and private security companies have partnered on line controlling and guarding exit doors.
The agents could potentially help in more limited roles — like managing lines, directing passengers or helping move people through the checkpoint process — to free up trained TSA officers for critical security functions.
They are already in New York, Atlanta, and Chicago standing around, doing nothing and wasting taxpayer dollars.
What a fucking idiot. I’m sure he doesn’t realize that the federal government doesn’t own or operate civilian transport hubs. More than half the states who fucking hate ICE will not allow this.
Then he’s going to try and pull the lever of removing TSA agents from airports, but guess what? PEOPLE WOULD LOVE THAT! The TSA bullshit airport has only been a thing since 2002. So many people don’t remember being able to just get in a flight, or walk/depart/meet people at the gate when they depart/arrive.
If anything bad happens as a circumstance of him doing that, then that’s on him and all the dipshits who enable this fucker.
Any airport in the US is effectively federal property because the TSA does security in all airports, the FAA controls most surface movement and all takeoffs and landings, and in International airports, the CBP controls the port of entry.
And I hate to break it to you but removing the TSA doesn’t mean we revert back to pre 9/11 days. Security at airports is still governed by the Aircraft Operator Standard Security Program which defines the screening requirements, but not necessarily who must complete them.
Trump will be under a lot of pressure from capital not to do this, I suspect, because it would absolutely crater tourism.
Assuming he TACOs, and dems hold strong (sob), I would be looking for one of two scenarios.
Most likely, airports revert to post 9/11-pre TSA setup. Same basic experience, and probably even the same people, but a different uniform. Remember Huntleigh? Argenbright? You may still see these logos on the arms of wheelchair pushers or janitorial staff, but for a long, long time, they operated the checkpoints too. Between maybe the late 80s and up until 9/11, there was still screening but it was much more lax. Basic screening was likely introduced after Pan Am flight 103, and while there were metal detectors and x-rays, anyone could go through, which is what made all the sappy last minute airport reunion scenes possible.
After 9/11, the AOSSP was updated again with much more stringent security requirements, but at first the screening was still done by those vendors - provided at least one specially trained airline representative Ground Security Coordinator was present at the checkpoint. I was a GSC once upon a time, and I don’t think the TSA took over all of the checkpoints until maybe 2005. Though I’m not still current on the AOSSP, I’m fairly certain all of the policy that would enable a complete reversion back to this model is still in place. Airlines at each airport would share the cost of the contract.
Back then, a bunch of Huntleigh Employees suddenly became TSA employees. We might see a bunch of TSA employees become Huntleigh employees.
Or potentially, Trump will split the difference and just make the TSA screeners ICE employees. That’s probably a LITTLE less likely to spook travelers, so it could be a face saving compromise, but more likely he will do something like the first option and spin it as cutting government bloat and a partnership with job creating business leaders.
Nope.
To what?
I hate when the media sane-washes the random tweets of this dumb ass mother fucker. This article goes to great length to talk about what roles ICE could play with limited training, when Trump had 100% not put an ounce of thought into this. They should just say “Trump proposes putting ICE into the airports, which makes no fucking sense.” But instead they try to invent ways that maybe it could possibly work?
CNN is owned by right wing corpos now. It’s compromised and has been for a while.
Isn’t he basically admitting that ICE is his private paramilitary organization?
The agents could potentially help in more limited roles — like managing lines, directing passengers or helping move people through the checkpoint process — to free up trained TSA officers for critical security functions.
Ah yes, ICE who is famously known for helping people, de-escalating situations and assisting other authorities in performing the job those are trained for.
“We don’t have enough line cooks to keep the restaurant open, so I’m sending in nurses to help them out”
Do you hear how dumb this sounds out loud Donny?
more like “we’ve run out of nurses, so we’ll send in abbatoir workers to do the job”
I’d have gone with “mouth-breathing stormtroopers” instead of “nurses”, but yeah.
Nurses are extremely important
it was an analogy, geez.
“We don’t have enough IT guys to fix these servers, send in the accountants.” Is that better?
As if I didn’t already spend hours of my life trying to explain to accountants why they cant just continue using 10 year old hosts for the core production infrastructure lol
Ok
Don’t fucking go to fascist America.
Holy fucking shit how stupid are non-Americans to keep doing this?
Airport violence will increase with the masked ICE and fake ICE goons.
25th… amendment.
Ooh…. ICE at the airport? Sounds like a good opportunity to let them know our opinion of them.
Just disband TSA and DHS and go back to airports doing their own security. TSA has never been anything but security theater pork barrel politics.
Great, do it! That should go over really really well. 🤣 And keep them from going out and doing their gestapo duties while they’re at it.
If TSA can’t work because there’s no funding, how the fuck would using ICE instead be any different?
It is fucked up and blatantly illegal that, despite the fact that the entire point of this exercise is to starve ICE of cash, they’re somehow still getting paid.
This is not the threat this idiot may think it is.
That ought to blow over well. Nothing could possibly go wrong with jackboot thugs being asked to manage lines and direct passengers.
Remember folks, be sure to wear your “Fuck ICE” and “Abolish ICE” t-shirts to the airports this week. Be loud and be proud.
Oh man I’m the other way around, I just want to get on my flight. Last time the body scanner guy tried to ask me why I was opting out, and I told him to go ask on the internet. There’s a severe power imbalance and if he wants to chat about it, then I expect him to decide I said the wrong thing.
Like, I get that most of them just need to pay rent. My issue with it is systemic, not personal. But there are some guys who are just looking for excuses to mess up your day. Why mess with them while I’m vulnerable and they’re getting paid by the hour?
That’s just TSA. I think a much higher percentage of ICE wants to go above and beyond while in costume.
