Note: this article is by The Atlantic’s humor columnist, so some details may be satirical.
Trump’s next step appears to be illegally paying TSA officers without congressional approval
Note: this article is by The Atlantic’s humor columnist, so some details may be satirical.
Trump’s next step appears to be illegally paying TSA officers without congressional approval
Waiting for someone to point out this as an example of how Trump views all of these people: as interchangeable parts. Maybe when he calls up National Guard units to go to airports and “help out.”
Don’t get me wrong, TSA is security theater, and I’m pretty sure most of them are aware. That said, they have to be there, and a number of them do a decent job of moving large numbers of people through their futile exercise rather efficiently. The average ICE agent’s “respect mah authoritah!” vibe is only going to mess up whatever efficiency that TSA agent had going.
I believe that to be the thrust of the move; to supplant the already dehumanizing TSA with the more rigid, militant and ultra-dehumanizing ICE goons.