Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

java-man

Step 2 in a nazi takeover of the United States. More is coming.

ryandrake

How do they justify Immigration and Customs enforcement working domestic flights and departures in general? Isn't ICE's scope supposed to be limited to what/who is coming into the country from foreign countries? Of course, that's a rhetorical question. When you're an autocrat, you do not need to justify your actions.

vkou

Keep in mind that the Democrats have proposed five bills to fund the TSA, and the Republicans have shot them all down. This reichstag fire is manufactured.

yodon

For all its flaws, TSA (at least under previous administrations) did a lot of design thinking work around how to streamline flows through airports, minimize travel stress and conflict, and optimize to minimize traveler complaints while continuing to maintain security. Bringing in shock theater optimized staff is a particularly poor fit for a scenario that will impact a disproportionately voting and bipartisan pool of citizens. There's a reason advertising in airports is generally targeted at corporate leaders and decision makers.

LightBug1

The US tourism industry must be just lapping this up ... "Visit the USA ... starting your holiday off wiv your papers, and a bang! Schnell !!! "

zoklet-enjoyer

This country is a shithole

rdegges

Straight white US citizen male here. This scares the shit out of me. I travel for work all the time, but understanding that we will now have barely trained, and in many cases completely lawless, consequence-free federal officers in direct, high stress, public areas where lots of people are constantly passing through seems like an absolute recipe for tragedy. This will 100% make me reconsider travel and avoid airports with ICE agents. I think the writing on the wall is clear, nobody is safe.

vjvjvjvjghv

Seems ICE is basically just a slush fund to use wherever they see fit.

mullingitover

Seems like a big own-goal for the administration to inject an agency which (according to polls[1]) is quite broadly hated into the daily lives of millions. Politically they're just going from failure (immigration policy broadly considered a failure) to failure (starting a new forever war in the middle east is universally hated) to failure (this). It's no wonder they're trying to burn the election system to the ground to prevent a fair election from occurring this year. It's the only way they're staying out of jail, especially Tom "cash bribes only" Homan. [1] https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-actions-of-ice-febru...

decimalenough

Welp, good thing there's absolutely no way this could go horribly wrong.

iJohnDoe

I wonder how this will impact the economy. People deciding not to travel won’t help anything. You would think this is the last thing the administration would want to do at this point.