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Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

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Re: Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

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Post by Buttons840 »

ryandrake wrote: post #3

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.

ICE has a lot of funding, more than some branches of the military.

This demonstrates they see ICE as their fix all police force, and that they are willing to deploy ICE to do whatever they think needs to be done.

Re: Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

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Post by 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.

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Post by KaiserPro »

0xy wrote: post #9
vkou wrote: post #4

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.

Democrats are explicitly opposed to a clean DHS funding bill with no changes.

> They aren't clean bills, so this is absolutely irrelevant.

I mean its not really irrelevant, its a calculated move from both sides.

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Post by vkou »

0xy wrote: post #9
vkou wrote: post #4

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.

Democrats are explicitly opposed to a clean DHS funding bill with no changes.

Their bills are the clean bills. Yesterday's vote was a simple yea or nay for TSA funding. The Republicans voted against it.

The GOP refuses to fund the TSA without tying a whole bunch of other fascist shit to it. This crisis is manufactured.

Re: Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

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Post by ryandrake »

paulddraper wrote: post #10
ryandrake wrote: post #3

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.

Virtually all commercial passenger flights are to international airports.

At least in the large airports, the international flights come in to a separate terminal. Will ICE limit their involvement to that terminal only, and only inbound flights? Immigration and Customs have no business on the outbound side or with domestic passengers.

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Post by 0xy »

vkou wrote: post #15
0xy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Democrats are explicitly opposed to a clean DHS funding bill with no changes.

Their bills are the clean bills. Yesterday's vote was a simple yea or nay for TSA funding. The Republicans voted against it. The GOP refuses to fund the TSA without tying a whole bunch of other fascist shit to it. This crisis is manufactured.

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Post by selectodude »

0xy wrote: post #9
vkou wrote: post #4

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.

Democrats are explicitly opposed to a clean DHS funding bill with no changes.

As they should be. I don’t want to fund DHS and I’m happy my reps are doing their job to keep it shut down. Funding TSA specifically is acceptable and has in fact been voted down in the senate by republicans several times now.

Re: Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

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Post by vkou »

0xy wrote: post #17
vkou wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their bills are the clean bills. Yesterday's vote was a simple yea or nay for TSA funding. The Republicans voted against it. The GOP refuses to fund the TSA without tying a whole bunch of other fascist shit to it. This crisis is manufactured.

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They'll vote for a clean TSA funding bill. Why are the reps tying all the star chamber shit they are doing with ICE to TSA funding?

Re: Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

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Post by 0xy »

vkou wrote: post #19
0xy wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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They'll vote for a clean TSA funding bill. Why are the reps tying all the star chamber shit they are doing with ICE to TSA funding?

Cool, so no FEMA funding. Good luck with the next disaster everyone, Democrats are politically grandstanding again.
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