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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Even North Korea doesn't do that

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 10 points 15 hours ago

Imagine being North Korea and having more respect than USA. What a time to be alive.

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Today is your lucky day we have a special upgraded flight for you, come right this way...

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 112 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

There is no way there are enough ICE to do this.

Trump is setting up the US for a 'terrorist attack' to justify the Iran War. Some poor brown guy with a beard will get gunned down just trying to fly home to his family, and MAGA will thank Jessica Foster for being blonde.

for downvoters...let's circle back on what happens in 14 days or less.

[–] acantharea@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If history is any indication, they'll prob get caught in the cross-fire like local law enforcement in Chicago, LA, or Minneapolis

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

The only way to stop an untrained ICE agent with a gun is a trained TSA agent with a gun.

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 114 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Tom Homan confirms ~~ICE~~ Gestapo to be at airports starting Monday

Fixed the headline

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Nah man, it's ICE. We don't need to link it to Germany anymore. Maybe the KKK if you want but MAGA and ICE have become prominent enough that there's no need to link them to Nazis. If Trump came before Hitler, they would call Nazis MAGA.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

ICE Apes is my name for them.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

ICE Apes is my name for them.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

The Gestapo had intelligence, ICE is more like the SA, brute goons

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also scabs. Gestapo scabs.

[–] Rekhyt@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Scabs would imply the TSA is on strike

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It's a lockout where they're forced to keep working.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When will the first murder occur?

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tomorrow. Question is where?

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She had a water bottle larger than 6 oz. I feared for my life.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

"The plane was heading right for me!"

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 day ago (10 children)

EVERYBODY bring your whistles.

You know what to do.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Whistles aren't doing jack. We need a general strike. Stop proposing distractions from real solutions.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

I'm gonna DO everything I can think of every day.

I'm looking for a removed in the armor.

Here is a picture of the front of MY house on the highway.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 0 points 11 hours ago

General strikes won't work in America. MAGA doesn't care if we go without jobs or money, and there are more than enough desperate poor people that they won't have any problem finding scabs to replace strikers.

We have a mechanism where we can deny them funding, and shut THEM down, and deny them their paychecks. Hurt THEM with our strategies, not us.

Shut it all down, and let chaos reign. Elect Democrats, and it will end.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

This won't end well

[–] TimboSlice@discuss.online 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago

I feel like this is a really bad idea on their part. So far they've only been terrorizing blue communities, now everyone is gonna get a taste. Just a litttttle but harder for people to ignore their own eyes and ears.

[–] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

nazis gonna nazi.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

This is Trump demonstrating that he has his own police force that he can deploy to any situation he pleases.

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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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/

FTA

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.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

You know how you're not allowed to film the security screening area at airports? Hmmm... probably a coincidence.

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[–] rayyy@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

The greatest clown show on earth.

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