Mayor Andre Dickens confirms ICE agents deploying to Atlanta airport

Homan is saying ICE isn’t trained to actually screen. So how are they helping.

Isn't ice also part of Homeland security? Why are they getting paid? 

nothing says "land of the free" like needing to pass through immigration enforcement just to catch a domestic flight home

If there's enough ICE agents to cover TSA AND cover immigration then there's too many ICE agents.

ICE is immigration! ICE is police! ICE is TSA! Seems like ICE is stealing jobs from Americans like those no-good immigrants the pedophile president claimed was such a huge issue.

Republican voters are f****** idiots.

This is the trial run for ICE manning polling stations. They want to see how quickly they can deploy people with as little notice as possible and how the public responds to bullying without reason. Adjustments will be made in time for November.

[Official statement](https://www.atlantaga.gov/Home/Components/News/News/15682/1338): >**Mayor Andre Dickens Issues Statement on Federal Presence at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport** >**ATLANTA** — Mayor Andre Dickens issued the following statement regarding a planned federal presence at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: >“We have been informed that federal personnel from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE-ERO) will be deployed to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport beginning tomorrow morning. >“According to federal officials, these personnel will be assigned to support operational needs directed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), including line management and crowd control within the domestic terminals. Federal officials have indicated that this deployment is not intended to conduct immigration enforcement activities. >"All federal personnel will report directly to TSA for the duration of this assignment. There are no requests for support from the Atlanta Police Department, and no anticipated impact on City operations at this time. >“Our Administration will continue to monitor the situation closely and remain in communication with the public and travelers as these federal actions develop. >“Atlanta remains committed to ensuring that residents and travelers feel safe, informed, and supported as they move through the world’s busiest and most efficient airport. >“Our Administration remains hopeful the Federal Government can soon find a way to fully fund TSA and pay their employees to resume standard operations at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport—and all airports we connect to. >“To help ease the burden on TSA officers who continue to serve travelers despite not receiving pay, the City and ATL have implemented support measures which [can be found here.](https://www.atlantaga.gov/Home/Components/News/News/15678/672) >“Members of the public and media are encouraged to direct specific operational questions to the Transportation Security Administration.”

Untrained anonymous violent thugs handling airport security. What could go wrong.

Three weeks. I give it three weeks before one of these untrained, racist, hyper-aggressive assholes shoots someone during screening.

Will they be wearing masks?

this feels like one of those things that’s gonna stress a lot of people out 😭 airports are already chaotic and now adding ICE into the mix just makes it more tense for anyone traveling… especially if you already feel like you’re being watched or at risk 💀

Trump- I’m offended that you are offended that untrained people are offending society at large so I will offend you harder to give me money to offend you more. How is this real life?

Let’s pretend that this is in any way a well thought out idea. Do you think the TSA people will be happy that these guys are getting paid when they’re not?

So they're actually getting paid to Stand around while actual TSA employees still need to do their jobs, unpaid? Rock bottom, America.

Get used to it USSA. First airports, then schools, libraries, private businesses, then door to door. Classic example of fascism.

Will they actually check IDs or just straight up profile everyone?

This isn't going to go well. I don't know how, when or why, but this stinks of another action that is covering up something much more devious.

Trial run for ICE a polling stations. 

It's late Sunday night after the rush of spring break and travel and TSA short fall. Yeah, deploy ICE to do what? Find someone who is mad because they missed a flight at a bar? Get fucked ICE. How about you give your overtime to the TSA that have been working for no pay.

Airports are already set up for “line management and crowd control” — they always have been.

Karen vs ICE. Ive been waiting for this.

Coming soon: ICE murder in the pre-check line.

Are the TSA agents salty about ice agents being present?

Remember, though: *Harris would have been worse*. Right? Thankfully, Trump's made everything great again by driving thousands into unemployment, making it hard/impossible for many to afford food or basic healthcare, installing government police everywhere to shoot people or send them to concentration camps, starting an endless war, raping children, and making it hard/impossible for millions of citizens to even vote. Yay!

So what qualifications to these thugs have to be able to do airport screening and security? If it’s just security there are already airport police.

Do we really think ice is going to be “assisting”? My guess is they will be slowing things down for anyone who is not white… am I wrong?

How do you allow a bomb through so you can blow up a flight of people and blame it on another country? Get rid of actual real and trained security and replace it with hired thugs.

This might actually be helpful if it convinces the Americans who don't want to think about politics that they needed to participate in democracy in order to KEEP it. I actually get it somewhat, having grown up with a George Carlin view of politics. Still, I have always voted and now I'm becoming active in protesting (hadn't done this since college days) as an act of self preservation.  So let reality hit the masses when they start to personally feel the punishment from their government that they were intending for minorities when they voted republican. Opression was always going to make its way to them eventually, sooner the better while we still have state elections planned. And I hope this backfires like hell on trump. If Americans could be bothered to do something now, before their favorite putin c*** sucking fascist in chief blows up the middle east infrastructure and we truly pass the point of no return, that'd be great. Bring on the ICE at the airports, may it have a silver lining.

So we have $200 billion for a war that is completely pointless, but we have no money for the actual citizens of this country and only to incite fear in them by sending ice agents.

All those Maha moms that think they are the center of the universe and are always flying somewhere to go on vaca are going to be pretty put out when ICE goons wearing masks rough up them or their kids for not listening or moving fast enough.  They aren't helping tsa with security or filling in for them to speed things up,  it's still going to be a 5 hour wait, they are just doing crowd control.  So if Karen Maha is testy and cuts in front of a white male, they'll be there to do something to her. Or if an American traveler shows up brown or with an accent,  they'll disappear them. Oh and it's nearly or is spring break for most of the US so that'll be fun for all the young people flying. 

They are there for crowd control, right? They don't know anything about TSA procedure or airport security. This is Federal government over-reach because protocol is for airport security to provide crowd control , and they call local police and sheriffs if more is needed because airports are community-owned, not federal property. The worst possible support to TSA ever. Plus, they are paid by Homeland Security too, so why not just do an inter-department money move? Ah, pres47/admin47 is trying to intimidate the US population and Congress, that's why.

Masked people playing police in a place that must be highly secured... that's a good idea /s

Are Trump's ICE thugs allowed to wear masks and refuse to show ID at the airport?

Will ICE still be wearing masks inside the airport. I’m sure they will end up good

Thanks again to all you moron idiots assholes that think Fox News is actual news and not just rage baiting entertainment for stupid people, you got us here.

Republicans are apparently now all for the oppressive central government they spent decades jerking off to since Goldwater.

Oh, for fucks sake, I have to fly through there this week.

What could possibly go wrong?

Gestapo thugs in the airports now? No more flights for me then.

Yes, please go to Georgia and all the other swing states.

Nothing spells confidence in America like paying two government agencies to do the same job.

Welcome to 1938 Germany.

This is gonna backfire so hilariously.

Yeah buddy. Directly pissing off even more of the public with this BS before midterms 🤌🏻 chef's kiss

PSA: those facial scanners TSA use are completely optional. They insinuate it’s mandatory but if you read the sign closely it’s optional. I have made it a point to deny facial scanning every time I fly. It’s your right and probably more important now.

Greyhound busses are about to have the fiscal quarter of all time.

I wonder how TSA agents will feel about people being sent in that are getting paid to do the job they are not getting paid to do. That won’t cause any issues at all.

Things that are going to end poorly for $800

How many innocent people will be killed or abducted at the airport for not being white?

The unqualified sending in the unqualified

You understand this is Marshall law…. American airports are being run by the secret police during war time.

I really hope these glorified mall cops end up serving food at subway and stocking vending machines instead of trying to pretend the locals in Atlanta are gonna listen to them

Will they wear masks while they work? Cause if they don’t, we win!

Are they going to perform the TSA functions with the same degree of competence and professionalism that they've demonstrated over the past year in every other area where they've been deployed?