Homan says ‘we’ll see’ if ICE officers leave airports once TSA workers get paid

In case anyone doubted Trump’s real reason to have ICE agents at airports.

Normalization...soon they'll be in every aspect of our lives if we don't take a stand.

Time to wake up everyone. Project 2025 specifically calls for TSA to be disbanded and privatized. That’s the Republicans goal with this bullshit. There’s a reason shithead Mike Johnson refused to hold a vote despite bipartisan support to fund TSA. They want as many TSA agents as possible to quit. What’s the best way to get people to quit? Not pay them. As TSA worker numbers plummet, Trump will claim that outside support is the only option - hence the privatization part. You better believe they’ll find some shitty newly formed or already corrupt company to fill that role, and Palantir surveillance will be part of their program. Republicans also want ICE agents to remain in our airports, which will be part of this as well. Completely fucked up. Trump needs to be removed from office and imprisoned ASAP. Biggest piece of shit in American history.

All standing around in corners doing nothing when I saw them today at Newark. Better than roaming our streets and killing people without recourse

P2025 specifically describes what is happening right now with TSA personnel - just sayin'

Spring time, ICE out! 

My mom always used that in place of “no”…

ta-da now they admit the plan all along (most of us here knew this would happened and called it from the very beginning)

Homan is the creepiest trump henchman I have ever seen. I feel like he's got people on meathooks in his basement.

The democrats in the Senate should then add it to their list of demands.

They probably want to go back to covering up their faces again though.

When you let Nazis in the door.

This was the plan the whole time.

Is it me or has Homan aged 15 years in the last 15 months? He’s 64 but looks like he’s in his mid-70s.

The sinister plan is to create a crisis in which you can intervene and stay involved with in perpetuity.

All to normalize a police state.

All they do is fatly sit around. I'd rather them be there and not roaming the streets like bandits

His response sounds better in the original German...

Mr potato head strikes again. Honestly, they are less efficient and less focused if they are in the airports, so I'm all for it.

Keep them there. I think they add to that welcoming ambiance that cities try to generate when their tourist and convention bureaus run those expensive ads encouraging you to visit. /s

Airport travelers are probably the most documented set of people in the US. By all means, go ahead and waste your resources by pissing off all those people.

How about the ICE agents that like to play soldier go to Iran and actually be soldiers.

Oh. Ok. So they won’t. Got it.

Send ICE to Iran! 

It's harder for the goons to murder innocent people in airports though.

Trump’s clique always say that because they don’t  have a clue and there’s no plan.

Whens the general flying strike? Ill take a road trip vacation?

We can have more shutdowns babe. With the world cup coming...let's play

This guy talks like he's had a stroke. Do we really want to follow the advice of someone who's brain is broken?

I could not even sell things very well if I believed it to be unkind and not what would help the person,who is taking these ICE jobs??? "Be a cop, an especially evil cop" seems like a thing you would not do. (I have zero desire to be a *nice* police officer as a job, but I think most of us would do that willingly)

So, what happens when the airlines start seeing an actual economic impact from this? I know I won't be flying anywhere on the rare times I vacation. I know that isn't saying much on my end but what about others who do the same?

How many people coming to watch the world cup are going to get deported to a gruesome prison in South America?

Gee its almost like they have nothing to do because they arent actually going after criminals.

At worst: "No, they are here to stay. Welcome to America, you are free to do as we tell you." At best: "I have no clue, because Daddy Trump hasn't told me yet, and we have to wait for the sundowning to end before he gives us a directive.

What a fitting name. He's a Ho-Man for Trump.

They would be better placed on the front lines in Iran.

They were there before all of this unfortunately...but they actually were doing their job.

I have always had a sneaky suspicion ICE was testing the waters and eventually would be used to grab white males for the draft.

Well, they’re not ticketed passengers, so TSA should kick them out. Should be curious to see if there’s resentment building for ICE being paid and them not.

I went thru PHI a few hours ago. 15 min wait time at TSA There were 6 ICE guys just hanging around doing nothing, no where near checkin. They were not causing any trouble and you could tell they were wondering what the hell they were doing there and just trying to get a paycheck.

Maybe I'll drive. Too bad the trains are not comprehensive and convenient. At least, when I tried looking at booking a train trip, it was kind of like "First go to the prancing pony tavern. There you will meet your travel agent, Strider. They will get your passage up to the forest of mirkwood, where you may or may not be able to gain entrance. If you cannot go through, then you will have to take the long way around and deal with the mountain giants. Don't let the trolls eat you. If you can persuade the eagles to fly you part of the way, that might cost extra but it's worth it."

I really don’t think this is indicative of some nefarious plot to takeover the airports, but rather another example of how ill-planned this administration is. He’s saying “we‘ll see” because neither he nor anyone else actually knows. They’re just playing it all by ear and making it up as they go.

That means no

The actual context > We’ll see. It depends [on] how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plans [on] coming back to work,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union. I don’t think they’ll stay there long term, it’s not what they want to be doing (which is cosplaying tacticool spec ops while arresting hispanic grandmas) The issue here is that hundreds of TSA officers have quit so even if they start to get paid again, there will be a huge gap in staffing.

They are here for at least as long as the World Cup goes on.

Is it obvious yet?

ICE being at the airports is not new. They’ve been at major airports ever since the Obama term.

He’s not wrong. Whilst he is a leader of the hell the US is going through, this is all on the whim of Trump.

So, in other words, “No.” Got it.

Just like the National Guard in the Capitol. Extended through elections.... National Guard to remain in nation's capital through 2026 - ABC News https://share.google/SN7hMY8HhWxWu2rUM Airports full of ICE & DC full of National Guard. Election time is going to be fire. They won't even have to put the VP in a car and have secret Service plan to drive them away this time. 

It's HALARIOUS and just so ironic how when 9/11 happened the government ramped up so much security over Americans and millions of Americans who are now mostly MAGA became this "big brother is watching" conspiracy theorists. I mean they spent the better of 15 years pushing to uncover conspiracy theories against the government thinking its all the Democrats......Then the person who is probably the holy grail of conspiracy theories infiltrates their party sells them on so much bullshit and is now basically fulfilling what they feared would happen the most...and they STILLL DONT SEE IT, because they have been convinced that being pro American is NOW supporting your government. The anti-government people are now the government is always right.

Better than having them murdering Americans o the streets.

He is the kind of guy that just says shit to get a reaction.

live the normalization of a private army that the constitution explicitly warned us 

I believe part of the reason trump finally got around to paying the TSA was that the rank and file ICE starting bitching.

Why should they leave?  Airports are ports of entry.  It will be good for security to have UCE replaced the TSA

[MAXI trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxi_Trial) 🤔

I'll be sure to flip them all off when I have my trip in June.

Homan looks like Wooly Willie. Instead of moving the magnetic shards to give him hair, just give him a Hitler mustache.

this is why we need term limits asap. Cant trust career politicians anymore.

They chose airports because there's no consequences for them there. There should be. 

Tbh the TSA thing is actually a decent reason to train and deploy guardsmen temporarily and hey while we’re talking about cutting Feds (we were last year weren’t we? Oh wait we fired a bunch of career professionals instead) maybe we can vastly cut or sunset TSA’s mission altogether

Better in the airports than on the streets where they can do a lot more bad shit to innocent people.

Tom Homan was Obama’s ICE chief and give him a medal for his efforts in deporting over 5mil people during Obama’s 8 years

This dude is a huge improvement over his predecessor. Which isn’t saying much. Doesn’t give a f*** about anything or anyone. The man has a job to do and he’s gonna do it per the boss’ orders no questions asked There’s a certain honesty to him that I find refreshing. He ain’t pretending he’s doing any good, he has a fucked up job to do and he's gonna do it

So ICE was funded 16 times during the Obama and Biden administrations where they used ICE to deport over 7 mill people combined. So what do liberals want now, open borders forever, no vetting of anyone? Since Obama, Hillary , Bill all said that unfettered migration causes undue burdens on our social systems and then ramped up deportations using IcE that they funded. In fact all presidents have enforced immigration laws that both parties have passed, using immigration enforcement officers that both parties have funded. What does the left actually want in terms of immigration enforcement, non whatsoever? Do we close down customs at airports and just invite anyone in forever?