Tom Homan confirms ICE Gestapo to be at airports starting Monday

Fixed the headline

The people with training (I'm against the TSA entirely but I will admit some of them have a good amount of training in respective disciplines) that are not getting paid get to work side by side with completely untrained assholes who are overpaid. This should go well.

When will the first murder occur?

EVERYBODY bring your whistles.

You know what to do.

How to reduce your countries travellers instantly to 0, just like they did with job creation. What semi sane person would travel to the us (or within for that matter)with the tsa handling things. You will be shipped off to Alligator Auschwitz in the blink of an eye before you even leave the airport. They will call it being efficient.

“Aaaaand gate A10 is through the checkpoint to your right” bang bang bang bang bang bang bang

Combine racist xenophobic nazis holding guns and qualified immunity with stressed out, exhausted travelers. What a recipe for disaster.

Don’t forget, they built prison camps to hold millions of people

nazis gonna nazi.

Every non-US American passport holder will immediately be sent to a concentration camp?

"You're a German tourist with a return flight next Monday I see. Mam, you're taking our jobs, you're eating our dogs, we will send you to an El Salvador prison straight away."

Which is it Tom!?! This report says they they are not going to aid tsa at airports.

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5795316-homan-ice-tsa-plan-dhs-shutdown/

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White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers will not be directly involved in security scanning measures at airports, a day before agency officials will begin assisting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees.

“Wherever we can provide extra security, I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine, because we’re not trained in that,” Homan told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“But there are certain parts of security that TSA is doing that we can move them off those jobs, and put them in the specialized jobs to help move those lines,” he added.

President Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier Sunday that ICE officers will “help” TSA agents starting Monday and Homan is in charge of the operation. The longtime immigration official said Sunday that he is “working on the plan” with acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and acting TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill.

“We’ll have a plan by the end of today,” he added. Homan also said that while the plan is a “work in progress,” it is his view that ICE should prioritize airports “where the longest waits are.”

As the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approaches day 40, a significant percentage of TSA employees continue to call out of work — resulting in lengthy security wait times at airports nationwide.

Some airports, including Philadelphia International Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, have even closed security checkpoints amid staffing shortages.

Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary of DHS, also said in a Tuesday release that 366 TSA officers have left the force since the shutdown began on Feb. 15. TSA employees received partial paychecks late last month and no paychecks at all last week.

Now, with ICE officers set to assist at airports, Homan said the law enforcement officials are ready to do so.

“ICE agents are assigned at many airports across the country already,” he told Bash. “They do a lot of investigation, criminal investigation on smuggling at airports. But you got TSA agents covering exits, people that enter through the exits.”

“Certainly, a highly trained ICE law enforcement officer can cover an exit and makes sure people don’t go through those exits, entering the airport through the exits,” he said. “And stuff like that relieves that TSA officer to go to screening and to reduce those lines.”

Homan’s comments Sunday conflict with those from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who told ABC News that ICE officers would assist with security screening operations at airports.

“They run those same type of security machines at the southern border, right?” Duffy said Sunday. “Packages come through or people come through. They run similar assets.”

“We have ICE agents who are trained and can provide assistance to agents,” he continued, noting the officers will also seek to assist with lines.

Homan also told host Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday” that ICE officers will relieve TSA agents from duties such as guarding exits, to allow them to focus on screening passengers.

The Hill has reached out to TSA, ICE and Transportation Department for clarification.

Homan on Sunday also noted on CNN that ICE carries out immigration enforcement at airports “all the time” and that is “not going to change,” but he added that this surge is specifically about assisting TSA employees.

“This is about helping the men and women at TSA,” Homan said.

ICE agents are there to convince TSA agents to join ICE.

The greatest clown show on earth.

In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that Democrats view the long lines as “leverage” for their demands of change.

“Democrats want to see long lines at airports as leverage. President Trump’s trying to take that leverage away and not make the American people suffer,” Duffy said.

This strategy doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't Trump want disruption to blame on congressional democrats? Or is the assumption the American people will always blame the president?

I would think if they're able to keep government functions going without funding DHS then it will just prove to people that there was never any need to fund it.

ooooh. at known locations. out in the open. interesting.

When you pass them in the airport, tell them their children hate them, because they probably do. At least some of them know it, and it will really eat at them.

Good. It’s what people voted for. Let the fuckers eat their cake.

This won't end well