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General Mar 23, 2026 at 6:21 PM

ICE agents spotted at airports assisting TSA as partial shutdown drags on

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-agents-tsa-airports-dhs-shutdown-security-delays-wait-times-rcna264740
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tqlla3k Mar 23, 2026 +1825
These guys are getting paid to stand around. While TSA agents miss their second paycheck.
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daemonicwanderer Mar 23, 2026 +359
How is ICE getting paid if TSA isn’t. Aren’t they both under Homeland Security?
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Akimbo_Zap_Guns Mar 23, 2026 +804
Because the BBB funded ICE at insane record levels through 2029 I believe. What Dems are fighting is ADDITIONAL funding for ICE which is insane that Trump wants more funding after how much $$$ the BBB gave them
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OhItsBeenBroughten Mar 23, 2026 +140
OBBB, not BBB. Big difference.
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IANALbutIAMAcat Mar 23, 2026 +40
Could you elaborate? What’s the OBBB? The Other BBB?
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OhItsBeenBroughten Mar 23, 2026 +133
“One Big Beautiful Bill” (Trump) versus “Build Back Better” (Biden).
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skid_marks6969 Mar 24, 2026 +52
Better business bureau
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CTRexPope Mar 24, 2026 +23
Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica
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JcbAzPx Mar 24, 2026 +8
You know, I never clocked until now why it was named that. Trump is just so petty and insecure he just had to take over the initialism with his childishly named bill.
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Taisubaki Mar 23, 2026 +50
Big B**** Bitches
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CT_Phipps-Author Mar 23, 2026 +33
Trump needs additional funding so he can put them at polling stations.
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Rich-Pomegranate1679 Mar 24, 2026 +19
And to just increase the size of his personal fascist army, in general.
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PatchyWhiskers Mar 24, 2026 +5
I think they'd do it for free.
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CT_Phipps-Author Mar 24, 2026 +11
Never overestimate the loyalty of goons. They think they're getting a 50K bonus.
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StretchyPlays Mar 24, 2026 +17
He wants them as his own private army. If and when he loses power, he will use them to stay.
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FuckLex Mar 24, 2026 +6
Aren’t we now at a point that our country is fiscally insolvent. What money?
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HarveysBackupAccount Mar 24, 2026 +3
More importantly, Dems are fighting the SAVE act, yeah? That's a much bigger deal than extra ICE funding
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cassielovesderby Mar 23, 2026 +94
They’re being paid using funds from last year’s spending. Trump literally made ICE “shutdown-proof”.
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AdFun240 Mar 23, 2026 +78
republicans funded ice completely in the BBB. So ICE pay is protected somehow but ATC and TSA are working without pay. I guess this is too much winning.
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MOlson_9 Mar 23, 2026 +16
ATC? No, they’re part of the FAA and are unaffected by the DHS shutdown.
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Lucky-Reason-569 Mar 23, 2026 +13
ATC funding is not affected by the current partial shutdown. However, the Trump administration did fire hundreds of ATC employees in February of last year.
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The_Bitter_Bear Mar 23, 2026 +20
Is ATC working without pay? I believe this is strictly DHS funding.  FAA/ Department of Transportation is currently funded and paying.
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IANALbutIAMAcat Mar 23, 2026 +6
Atc is being paid. I had to dig into this this morning because there’s been a lot of misreporting where they say TSA “and air traffic” aren’t being paid. This partial shutdown is still paying atc. But they’re hugely understaffed and their 4% pay raise was blocked in February.
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noobtastic31373 Mar 23, 2026 +3
ATC was the last shutdown, not this one.
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disco_disaster Mar 23, 2026 +30
From what I understand, ICE was allocated its own funding in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” separate from the rest of DHS. Republicans made sure their loyal cronies would never go unfunded. Realistically, what are they actually qualified to do? TSA officers are trained to identify specific threats.
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CT_Phipps-Author Mar 23, 2026 +10
They already kidnapped a mother in front of her child.
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imahugemoron Mar 23, 2026 +6
What’s funny is there have been reports of ice agents frustrated about not getting paid, not getting bonuses and stuff like that, so it’s not even that they’re making sure their Gestapo gets paid, they’re absolutely stealing that money for themselves.
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aeide7 Mar 23, 2026 +16
Ice was funded through the reconciliation bill last year, and has funds through 2029.
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tqlla3k Mar 23, 2026 +11
Here is an article from business insider about it [https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ice-agents-paid-tsa-not-dhs-government-shutdown-2026-3](https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ice-agents-paid-tsa-not-dhs-government-shutdown-2026-3)
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JustSmallCorrections Mar 23, 2026 +6
That's gotta build some animosity with those TSA agents.
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Chaosmusic Mar 23, 2026 +3
That's even worse than scabs. The TSA still have to work, aren't getting paid, and have to deal with untrained people who are being paid.
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Kushwayne Mar 23, 2026 +3620
"Assisting" is a rather weird description of men standing around, attempting to make a presence through intimidation.
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ChiralWolf Mar 23, 2026 +1152
Especially when they aren't trained or expected to do anything for TSA per their own bosses words. They're just there to intimidate people, pure and simple.
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sinfulfng Mar 23, 2026 +506
They’re there as a visual reminder that they have half the brains and twice the budget of the marines and they answer to trump
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Taffysak Mar 23, 2026 +129
Crayon shortage incoming
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noobtastic31373 Mar 23, 2026 +65
You assume ICE are intelligent enough to know what to do with crayons.
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livinginfutureworld Mar 23, 2026 +26
Will the Marines are crayon eaters already. ICE are going to be the crayon shooters.
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kogent-501 Mar 23, 2026 +25
Only the colored ones.
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OwenMichael312 Mar 23, 2026 +17
I think ICE eats chalk. Not smart enough to get the wrappers off the delicious crayons.
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ID_Poobaru Mar 23, 2026 +4
They eat chalk for their stomachs and tums for drawing warrants
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IAMA_Plumber-AMA Mar 23, 2026 +3
Nah, white glue is their craft supply of choice.
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Z0idberg_MD Mar 23, 2026 +28
I was thinking more directly related to the TSA: it’s a reminder they have the budget to funds the TSA but they choose not to. Also a reminder that the Democrats have put up like five bills that would independently fund the TSA and the Republicans refuse to support it.
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Hon3y_Badger Mar 23, 2026 +74
It's not just that they aren't trained, it's that once someone has been determined to be a US citizen ICE has to stop all interaction with them. Turns out most people going through US airports are US citizens.
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Unusualthoughts123 Mar 23, 2026 +86
Really? I don’t think they know that rule.
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fresh-dork Mar 23, 2026 +21
they're trained to assume that all ID is fake and that the people are lying. then they go deport garcia again
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IAMA_Plumber-AMA Mar 23, 2026 +16
They've also been told that they have complete immunity.
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Hon3y_Badger Mar 23, 2026 +37
Part of the problem ICE has been having is that they have zero authority over US citizens & they aren't law enforcement. When protestors run a red light to follow them, they can't do shit about it. If you aren't impeding their enforcement and they know you are a US citizen their authority ends.
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AndreasVesalius Mar 23, 2026 +115
Apparently they can shoot them in the face
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przemo_li Mar 23, 2026 +19
Nah. You first have to place yourself in front of the car, swap hands between camera and gun, and shit only when they start to drive around you, and you don't have to stop even if the car is sideways to you and you are shooting multiple times through the side window. Extra points for them refusing access to suspects from self-identified doctors at the scene.
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f1del1us Mar 23, 2026 +46
The legal reality and the real world are vastly different if you haven’t noticed. ICE will absolutely f*** with American citizens if they deem them undesirable. It may not be legally correct but there is zero accountability for them to necessitate change.
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kermityfrog2 Mar 23, 2026 +7
This US passport that you just used to come back into the country from abroad? Obviously fake!
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jazzhandler Mar 23, 2026 +3
“You can beat the charge, but you can’t beat the ride.”
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Grand_Size_4932 Mar 23, 2026 +47
> they can’t do shit about it Okay… but that certainly hasn’t stopped them from doing shit about it. > their authority ends. Does it? Let’s be honest, if on paper they have to disengage when their jurisdiction ends, but they instead act beyond their capacity and detain and murder citizens anyway with impunity from the president, does their authority *really* end? Does me saying “Oh, no no no Mr. ICE Agent, you’re not allowed to smash my face into the ground and handcuff me.” Stop them from doing it? No.
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jkvincent Mar 23, 2026 +42
They have harassed, abused, and even killed people, including several citizens recently, and faced zero consequences whatsoever. Regardless of whatever our nation's laws and our worthless courts and congress say, it's pretty clear that they do have de facto authority over anyone for as long as this toilet of a regime remains in place.
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wizzard419 Mar 23, 2026 +4
Those aren't so much the problem as they feel/know they have unlimited power because the d***-tator likes seeing their atrocities.
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the_falconator Mar 23, 2026 +7
Because it's not a real rule. Just something that is being spread around online as misinformation.
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pale_blue_problem Mar 23, 2026 +27
Riiiiight. They just hold citizens for “questioning” until everything is “cleared up”and then the citizen is turned out of an ICE facility a few states away with no ID, money, or phone. We’ve all seen it happen multiple times.
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awoeoc Mar 23, 2026 +17
They have no authority against US citizens, well except publicly executing them in their own neighborhoods with zero consequences sometimes. 
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Double_Combination55 Mar 23, 2026 +5
Ha. Unless they don’t look American enough. Then disappear them first.
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secret_identity_too Mar 23, 2026 +140
And getting paid while the people actually working aren't.
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HarryHood146 Mar 23, 2026 +121
Wouldn’t you be pissed if you weren’t getting paid but the cosplay clown just standing behind you was?
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The_Bitter_Bear Mar 23, 2026 +31
Can't wait to hear about more TSA agents quitting at all the locations they send ice.
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way2manychickens Mar 23, 2026 +21
Plot twist, TSA agents sign up to be ICE agents in order to get paid
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The_Bitter_Bear Mar 23, 2026 +11
Ya know, while TSA isn't beloved, I've met a fair share of agents that would absolutely be far better choices than the ICE agents I've met.
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Double-Ad-7483 Mar 23, 2026 +9
Most of them are just normal people who want/needed the job. After all, TSA is primarily a jobs program bundled up in a package that the typical US citizen would support. And that's a lot different from ICE where most of them are fundamentally bad people.
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GrouchySprinkles1012 Mar 23, 2026 +70
That was my thought — how are they “assisting” when they can’t even do any TSA duties? edit: it’s also really fucked that the headline is phrased this way.
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The_Bitter_Bear Mar 23, 2026 +41
An interview I heard yesterday that said the plan was to have them do some basic things like watching exits and other stuff that doesn't require training to free up as many TSA agents as possible. Looks like they're just standing around collecting a check for doing nothing. I'm sure they take some time to harass all the non-white folks though....
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tsrich Mar 23, 2026 +19
Hey that's not fair. Sometimes they harass white folks too!
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The_Bitter_Bear Mar 23, 2026 +5
Ya know, that's a good point.
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eeyore134 Mar 23, 2026 +18
They already arrested a mom and her kid who had already passed through security so obviously had IDs. They were already on their way out of the country, but it's not about that anymore I guess. It's about filling for profit prisons and getting c**** labor and lab rats.
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4193-4194 Mar 23, 2026 +5
I saw the video with no context. Do you have a source for the outcome or any facts about it?
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eeyore134 Mar 23, 2026 +3
Beyond them being past security which meant they had proper IDs and the fact they were leaving the country, nope.
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willstr1 Mar 23, 2026 +3
Don't forget about human trafficking, the pedo in chief killed his previous supplier so now he and his co-conspirators are funding their human trafficking ring with taxpayer money
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architype Mar 23, 2026 +7
Yup. If they aren’t helping with TSA moving people through security checkpoints, then they are taking up space. No masks. Time to create a database of all of them now.
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angrygirl65 Mar 23, 2026 +4
Just saw a TikTok video of them already arresting people. A woman traveling with her child.
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UbiSububi8 Mar 23, 2026 +934
Serious question: Why ICE? Why not national guard?
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deviltrombone Mar 23, 2026 +1514
ICE is comprised of Trump thugs. National Guard still has Americans in it.
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juanzy Mar 23, 2026 +227
More than that- guardsmen are citizens full time and only guardsmen when deployed. That really changes perspective.
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PatchyWhiskers Mar 23, 2026 +121
ICE are supposed to be Trump's brownshirt enforcers, so he wants to get used to citizens kowtowing to and fearing them.
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stars_mcdazzler Mar 23, 2026 +64
SUPPOSE to be?! Buddy, they're straight up Nazis occupying American establishments.
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imaginary_num6er Mar 23, 2026 +3
Trump Troopers = TT
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DrPanda82 Mar 23, 2026 +309
Trying to normalize using ICE in various capacities as a prep for stationing them at polling places in November
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BlacqanSilverSun Mar 23, 2026 +75
Yup, this too.
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Michael_G_Bordin Mar 23, 2026 +5
I'm just curious how they plan on dispersing the 25k or so ICE agents to the roughly 2000 polling places in blue-voting areas of California. Or do they plan on exerting influence in other states, as well? They're going to have to be real f****** strategic, or they're going to have like one guy per polling place (and still miss a bunch of crucial places). How much can they really depress the vote doing this? It will scare immigrants, but it won't deter other blue voters. It's not like ICE can tell who votes how. And it's not like Trump is up for election, there are so many down-ballot races happening that their efforts are likely to amount to zilch. More likely, he's going to send squads to the places where tallies are aggregated and try to seize ballots. Judging by today's performances, local PDs will assist. The nice thing is, nobody has seen this as normalized. It's still weird as f*** that ICE drives around neighborhoods prowling for brown people, and it's weirder still they're just standing around airports not alleviating any of the delays. They suck, their bosses suck, and no amount of presence can normalize them because they're a band of tacky weirdos who barely know what they're doing. If they show up to the polls, we need to show up to the polls. They can't f*** us all, they don't have the numbers. They're a weak-ass dipshit version of the gestapo.
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BlacqanSilverSun Mar 23, 2026 +41
Because Trump said so. He just said it was his idea in a press conference. It's his attempt to strong arm the Democrats in Congress and Senate to pass his voter ID bill. He won't pass funding for the TSA alone without new funds for ICE. And he won't pass anything til the voter ID bill is passed. Or so he says. We will see.
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UbiSububi8 Mar 23, 2026 +4
Right. I get it’s his idea, I get he’s looking to apply pressure for the voter id and the partial shutdown. But is there a practical rationale why he chose barely-trained ICE agents versus trained guard members?
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PatchyWhiskers Mar 23, 2026 +20
The problem with ICE is not "lack of training" - that's a Chuck Schumerism. The problem is that they are TRAINED to do this shit. The idea is that we are all afraid of them and comply with them instantly. We are already primed to comply with airport staff, so they are slotting into that "authority figure" position.
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moneyfish Mar 23, 2026 +7
> The problem with ICE is not "lack of training" - that's a Chuck Schumerism. It doesn't take a lot of training to know that killing unarmed civilians is wrong. In fact it takes no training whatsoever. Schumer doesn't have the cojones to call ICE what they are. They're evil people.
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BlacqanSilverSun Mar 23, 2026 +5
Even the guardsmen aren't trained airport security. Plus the optics of uniformed solders with M4s in every airport is not optimal. I do see the irony of having ICE there comparatively.
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upsidedownshaggy Mar 23, 2026 +18
It's probably because both the TSA and ICE are agencies under the DHS, so DHS doesn't have to pull any strings to get the NG deployed to assist. If you wanna get conspiratorial it's because the Trump admin is trying to normalize ICE doing not ICE things so no one questions why they're stationed outside of polling locations this fall.
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KronkLaSworda Mar 23, 2026 +10
Another trial run for the midterm election suppression day. They will 100% be standing near polling stations in blue cities this year. Count on it.
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sarduchi Mar 23, 2026 +46
National Guard are trained and not likely to cause an "incident".
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juanzy Mar 23, 2026 +17
They have clear rules of engagement and are debriefed after having to answer for what decisions they made. ICE has neither.
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fearofcrowds Mar 23, 2026 +10
"laughs in Neil Young's Ohio"
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PatchyWhiskers Mar 23, 2026 +6
ICE are trained TO cause incidents, because the idea is that we fear them.
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MentokGL Mar 23, 2026 +63
Questions like that are punishable by hard time at an ice concentration camp
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ksobby Mar 23, 2026 +6
SO, to answer the national guard part: It's complicated. The national guard can only be federalized in VERY specific ways: national defense, overseas wars OR federal law enforcement. None of those criteria are met with the current situation because the current situation is a federal political issue. IF they were to deploy them to airports, it would have to be as federal law enforcement and there would have to be a shit ton of evidence nationwide that federal laws were being broken at airports which would not pass the sniff test and you'd see a ton of governors and state legislators revolt. IF ICE or protestors start stirring up issues onsite making it unsafe for passengers, then you may have a leg to stand on deploying the guard to keep the peace but even that would be a hard argue in court when the TSA was specifically chartered to keep airports safe ... which would start the fight as to why they aren't considered essential and immune from government shutdowns.
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lodelljax Mar 23, 2026 +15
National Guard are technically still soldiers held to account by officers, who swear an oath to defend the constitution, with a separate law system the uniform code of justice. The officers know they will be held to account for any abuse or breaking of their law. Their troops are trained for the same. More importantly they are local, their friends and family are likely in the airport. Generally National Guard soldiers will behave lawfully and with some compassion for their neighbors. ICE is not that.
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fartonisto Mar 23, 2026 +4
Because it's all a performance and these are simply actors in Trump's movie.
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hlgb2015 Mar 23, 2026 +5
Actual answer, because TSA and ICE are both under the Department of Homeland Security. Easier to keep things in the same department with official federal officers (qualified or not), and ICE of course has a surplus due to them recruiting and fast-tracking anyone with a pulse for the past year.
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PhatYeeter Mar 23, 2026 +6
They're still busy in DC I guess
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Jtex1414 Mar 23, 2026 +3
If you look at ICE as brownshirts, they make more sense (google the term if unfamiliar). They aren’t really immigration enforcement. They’re trumps police he can mobilize to go where he wants.
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sealosam Mar 23, 2026 +326
Why tf do they need the tactical gear and carry guns? Absolutely zero need for full display of authority and force. Imagine flying into the US and seeing these assholes then driving around seeing banners with trumps portrait hanging from government buildings. F****** banana republic shit.
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LindzmacL Mar 23, 2026 +84
Russia/North Korea vibes
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sealosam Mar 23, 2026 +20
I was thinking more of a reckless lunatic, like Sadam or Gaddafi. Statues of himself, ballrooms, mar-a-lardo compound/palace, tacky gold everywhere, coins, etc etc. There's really no words anymore to describe the absolute disgrace that he's made of the presidential office.
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SparkyMuffin Mar 23, 2026 +21
They're carrying weapons in the airport??? Are you shitting me
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stuffedcheesybread Mar 23, 2026 +15
Yes they were at JFK at least. Saw guns.
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hypoglycemicrage Mar 23, 2026 +31
Because they are cowards.
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LotsofSports Mar 23, 2026 +440
They are not assisting. They are standing around with their thumb in their ass or tackling brown people.
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ChrisFromLongIsland Mar 23, 2026 +82
TSA agents are working while not getting paid and IVE agents are not working while getting paid.
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didgeridoodady Mar 24, 2026 +5
this is hilarious because the running gag is the TSA is known for being useless, and they're being covered by another agency who's job is to stand there and literally be useless but they're getting paid
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stuffedcheesybread Mar 23, 2026 +9
Can confirm. Was just at JFK, didn’t see a lot of value add activity.
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TALKTOME0701 Mar 23, 2026 +74
How pissed off would you be if the people standing there doing nothing are getting paid full wages while you're working for free?
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fe-and-wine Mar 23, 2026 +61
Not only that - those people standing around collecting full wages *are the reason* you’re not getting paid!
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StrategyJealous1838 Mar 23, 2026 +243
I don't have control over how NBC titles their news articles and i don't wanna break rule 5 but "assisting"? Give me a break
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ry_guy1007 Mar 23, 2026 +57
“Assisting” is really doing some heavy lifting there
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rammo123 Mar 23, 2026 +19
"Assisting" is journalistic malpractice.
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jimtow28 Mar 23, 2026 +56
What are they "assisting" with, exactly? Because I honestly think the biggest help they could be is to just fork over their paychecks to the TSA folks who actually provide value for being there and haven't been paid all this time because Republicans refuse to rein in their Gestapo.
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JollyGreenLittleGuy Mar 23, 2026 +6
I mean it's not like TSA actually provides much value. Better to dissolve both TSA and ICE and fund social services that actually help people.
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firefighter26s Mar 23, 2026 +15
As if I needed ***another*** reason to not visit the US any time soon, here it is.
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JustSomeone3131 Mar 23, 2026 +172
[Economists generally agree that the effects of immigration on the U.S. economy are broadly positive. Immigrants, whether high- or low-skilled, **legal or illegal**, are unlikely to replace native-born workers or reduce their wages over the long-term, though they may cause some short-term dislocations in labor markets. Indeed, the experience of the last few decades suggests that immigration may actually have significant long-term benefits for the native-born, pushing them into higher-paying occupations and raising the overall pace of innovation and productivity growth.](https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-effects-of-immigration-on-the-united-states-economy) The laws being enforced by ICE exist to create scapegoats, not to serve the US or its citizens.
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estamosready Mar 23, 2026 +36
But my racism!
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Elfhoe Mar 23, 2026 +16
Well yeah. US birthrates have been in decline for years and fall well short of the natural level to sustain the population. If it weren’t for immigration, the US would suffer from an aging population. If you want to see what that looks like, just take a look at the issues Greece and Italy are facing.
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jjwhitaker Mar 23, 2026 +6
In 2016 one proposal for actually making Trump's insane GDP growth promise was... let in 5mil immigrants per year to boost the economy.
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didsomebodysaymyname Mar 23, 2026 +42
I give it a day or two before we hear about how they're abusing their position or f****** up.
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Futureacct Mar 23, 2026 +30
It’s already happened
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groggs42 Mar 23, 2026 +5
Sounds like they have already harassed, roughed up and detained someone already. Story said they were legal citizens but apparently did not prove that enough for the ICE agents, boom, roughed up, pulled away from her daughter and arrested.
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McCree114 Mar 23, 2026 +112
Another reason for foreign tourists to avoid the U.S right now.
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Jakabov Mar 23, 2026 +9
Plenty of people who work for European travel agencies have reported that tourist travel to the US has dropped practically to zero. There are still people who must travel there for professional reasons, but pretty much nobody goes there because they want to.
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tazztsim Mar 23, 2026 +34
At this point how checked out would one have to be to travel for fun to the USA right now.
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techtakular Mar 23, 2026 +9
how do I check out of here?
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primeweevil Mar 23, 2026 +14
check out anytime you'd like, but you can never leave
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RSGMercenary Mar 24, 2026 +6
🎵 Welcome to the Hotel Pedophelia! 🎵 Cuffed and sprayed with mace 🎵 By ICE and Orange Face
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wswordsmen Mar 23, 2026 +6
When someone makes the Declaration of Independence a todo list that is a place to avoid.
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utti Mar 23, 2026 +32
>ICE officers and agents are trained in crowd control, monitoring lines and checking IDs, skills that could be useful at airport lines leading to security screening, the second ICE official said. Boarding domestic flights requires Real ID or a passport, limiting immigration arrests at airports. No mention of ICE's use of teargas, arresting people without asking for IDs, or murdering Americans. Mainstream media doing its usual job.
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Wers81 Mar 23, 2026 +9
🤣 trained my ass. Except Like you say in tear-gassing, assaulting, kidnapping murdering and being general assholes.
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terram127 Mar 23, 2026 +22
What a way to kill the air travel and tourism industries. Why tf would a foreigner want to use an airport filled with “agents” that would brutalize or kill them if given the chance? Jesus Christ
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DeadlyMustardd Mar 23, 2026 +7
I don't even want to use the airport as an American with them there.
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veeveemarie Mar 23, 2026 +9
Project 2025 wants to abolish the TSA and install privatization. This gives them the chance to do it. And normalizes ICE/military throughout our country.
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Night_Raid96 Mar 24, 2026 +3
Congress can't do lawmaking anymore. Keep an eye for us military citizens against Trump police forces like this air travel.
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Jakabov Mar 23, 2026 +9
I'm sure women across the country look forward to being strip-searched by dudes who have so little self-control that they routinely *murder people in public because they enjoy the power rush.*
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totally-jag Mar 23, 2026 +8
They're doing a great job of standing around and doing nothing. There's not a single report of how this has improved the flow of people through security check points. Just another trump scheme that wastes tax payer money trying to solve a problem he created, that didn't need to happen in the first place. Great job numb nut.
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CORI_Scarecrow Mar 23, 2026 +9
They are just standing around Hartsfield-Jackson with their thumbs up their asses. Source: took a flight out just a few hours ago.
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Braklinath Mar 23, 2026 +8
Wouldn't be surprised if it was a deliberate ploy to start replacing most field operations with just ICE thugs. Ehat else could they be spending all those billions on? Besides money laundering of course
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culture_vulture_1961 Mar 23, 2026 +23
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival in 1969 hired Hells Angels as security. It did not go well. Sending ICE into airports will inevitably lead to "incidents" due to poor training and a shoot first culture. You could almost write the headlines now.
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MiloGoesToTheFatFarm Mar 23, 2026 +24
I’m glad the Democrats aren’t capitulating. This just illustrates how dysfunctional this Republican regime can be.
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perestroika12 Mar 23, 2026 +7
How will this reduce lines in any way What is even the point of this
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PhiladelphiaCollins8 Mar 23, 2026 +14
There is no point. They hired a bunch of idiots who could never hack it in the military or as police for wayyyy too much money and now they are trying to find something to do with them. These people have no skills and provide nothing at all to society so now they get paid to stand around and cosplay as a soldier. Gravy Seals reporting for duty!
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Oxjrnine Mar 23, 2026 +8
Have they shot anyone yet for an oversized bag or 3.9 oz bottle of mouthwash?
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drinkduffdry Mar 23, 2026 +7
Imagine being a TSA officer who is covering multiple duties because of call outs and not getting paid, then having to watch the extended break patrol loll about because there isn't really anything they can do and know that they are getting paid for doing literally nothing. That might be my break point.
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ro536ud Mar 23, 2026 +7
The welfare queens standing around doing nothing like usual
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MrArmageddon12 Mar 23, 2026 +24
Someone is about to get shot over a shampoo bottle size.
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Y0___0Y Mar 23, 2026 +6
Is this legal? ICE can just be sent to do the work of any other DHS agency?
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d0kt0rg0nz0 Mar 23, 2026 +6
By 'assisting' they mean 'standing around with masks and guns until we want to tackle and disappear someone'.
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[deleted] Mar 23, 2026 +17
Democrats need to hold firm for once. Let this drag out. Also, why the hell would they not use the National Guard? Ice agents can’t read, what help can they possibly be to TSA?
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EmilioMolesteves Mar 23, 2026 +16
ICE Agents: Excuse me, but we were told we were going to be able to beat up minorities, not work a real job.
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ronreadingpa Mar 23, 2026 +3
And soon many of them may call in sick too or quit. TSA screening is a mundane job. And under close surveillance. ICE agents will be on a tight leash. Many won't like that.
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CoolBreeze514 Mar 23, 2026 +5
I don’t really understand how deploying immigration enforcement at airports is supposed to improve wait times at security checkpoints. From what I’ve gathered, that kind of enforcement has already been in place for years, so I’m not sure what’s changing here that would actually make security lines move faster.
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BloopityBlue Mar 23, 2026 +4
as a person with a persian last name it looks like I won't be flying anywhere any time soon.... I think that this was 100% intentional to start rounding people up... not just "illegal immigrants" but everyone they don't like.
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[deleted] Mar 23, 2026 +10
ICE agents *who are still getting paid* spotted at airports "assisting" TSA agents, who are not. Great work, Trump. That'll turn everyone to your side.
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ronreadingpa Mar 23, 2026 +3
Little makes sense in 2026. Like living the Back to Future II timeline (Trump being Biff) for real, but worse. Hoping sanity prevails soon.
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hmfic_2020 Mar 23, 2026 +17
Grab a picture of every one of their faces. No more hiding behind a mask.
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Hangry_Howie Mar 23, 2026 +9
Can you imagine one of these overpaid dipshits shadowing you at work while you dont get f****** paid?
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timf3d Mar 23, 2026 +3
Are they assisting though?
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Never_Forget_94 Mar 23, 2026 +7
No, they are just standing around. I saw 5 of them on their phones laughing this morning.
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ravenx92 Mar 23, 2026 +4
I saw them walking around the terminals .... In the areas where liter everyone has already added security. What possible benefit could they be providing? 
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kanrad Mar 23, 2026 +4
Please, they are not assisting with anything but to find more people to illegally deport under the auspice of helping the nation. A situation this administration created. Manufacture issues to cover more illegal activity. WAKE THE F*** UP!
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BradKooler Mar 23, 2026 +3
If these people can do this at airport they will certainly do it at the polls. Make a law to keep ICE away from Polls or any special elections moving forward.
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EvilAdolf Mar 23, 2026 +4
Imagine being boarded by some Nazi fucks. Man, f*** the USA.
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Raa03842 Mar 24, 2026 +4
Don’t you have to be able to read in order to do the TSA job?
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Sirius-Face Mar 23, 2026 +14
Fake news, they aren't assisting with anything. They're standing around looking for a brown person to terrorize.
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Fit-Let8175 Mar 23, 2026 +5
For visitors, this must be so comforting. /s
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PhiladelphiaCollins8 Mar 23, 2026 +6
Great! Now not only are you waiting hours and hours to get through this bullshit you also might end up getting shot by the MAGA Gestapo.
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Existential_Vibes Mar 23, 2026 +3
What are they assisting, because all I see are videos of them harassing and detaining people while refusing to identify themselves.
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dannyb_prodigy Mar 23, 2026 +3
This feels like a very big political mistake. It brings focus back to the reason for the shutdown (ICE funding). It also highlights how ICE is already funded through the Big Beautiful Bill (the reason ICE can assist is because of this funding). Since ICE is untrained it does nothing to actually improve the situation. Also, since ICE is untrained it increases the chance of them doing something stupid in a very public place that will make them even more unpopular.
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Fockelot Mar 23, 2026 +4
Ok so hang on. Let me make sure I’m understanding this, we are paying for ICE to work at the airport entrances and exits to “help TSA”… the same entrance and exits that are automatic doors??????????
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Knees0ck Mar 23, 2026 +4
Normalizing the NeoGestapo at the airport.
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Futureacct Mar 23, 2026 +5
They already kidnapped some woman at SF international
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NumberNumb Mar 23, 2026 +5
I don’t understand why they can pay ICE but can’t pay the regular TSA employees.
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ryland52586 Mar 23, 2026 +2
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norrinzelkarr Mar 23, 2026 +2
They were there. No evidence they assisted jack shit
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nmay-dev Mar 23, 2026 +2
Are they still wearing masks? Edit: no they are not supposed to be according to the fat clown.
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DrShadowstrike Mar 23, 2026 +2
This is going to do wonders for TSA morale. Not being paid for over a month while still required to do your job, which a bunch of extra guys standing around doing nothing get paychecks is really going to rub the situation in their faces.
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scarlson1818 Mar 23, 2026 +2
I haven't seen them assisting shit
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turlian Mar 23, 2026 +2
ICE agents at airports cannot wear masks. Take photos and post them.
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Double_Combination55 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Not trained to do tsa stuff. So other than making a chaotic environment more chaotic and crowded…. Oh wait.
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Interesting-Fly-6891 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Came to say similar slant on title. How about; “Inappropriate use of military when Commander In Chief insists on altering free and fair elections for his personal gain.”
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jokerkcco Mar 23, 2026 +2
Y'all are missing it. If they're stuck there, they won't be able to harass people and abduct them.
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androidfig Mar 23, 2026 +2
Get rid of all of them.
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Trekker6167 Mar 24, 2026 +2
So we can send anyone with guns to the airports now?
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Global_Crew3968 Mar 24, 2026 +2
Assisting by doing nothing. Assisting by taking up space. Assisting by watching people do their job unpaid. Assisting by wasting taxpayer money. Assisting by showing the American people what a lazy “agency” they are.
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JLC0912 Mar 24, 2026 +2
Why are they wearing bulletproof vests while working as TSA agents?
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Sarnsereg Mar 24, 2026 +2
So, any reason they can't just pay tsa agents instead of paying ice agents to stand around? They're really trying to get people used to see armed boys with machine guns because therr is NO reason to be se ding thrse highly unqualified and untrained people to airports wearing body armor and guns. Tsa is protecting us without any of that stuff.
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thoroughbredftw Mar 24, 2026 +2
Assisting? Looks like these guys are standing around practicing the wide stance, while grasping belt accessories, that makes them feel manly.
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Cobby1927 Mar 24, 2026 +2
They were standing around holding their dicks.
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xcl_78 Mar 24, 2026 +2
Was at airport yesterday. As far as I could tell, ICE agents were just walking around. As far as anything related to security or screening, it was all TSA workers.
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