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What is ICE actually doing at the airport? | ICE is supposed to be helping TSA at American airports. I didn’t see that at JFK.

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  1. theverge on

    I saw ICE immediately after arriving at JFK’s Terminal 4. Four agents stood in a tight circle outside the Delta Sky Priority check-in area. They didn’t seem to be managing the crowd or doing much of anything at all. Their vests identified them as ERO: Enforcement and Removal Operations, the division that carries out immigration arrests and raids. As I made my way to the TSA line — wait time: one hour and counting — I saw two more agents standing idly in a corner.

    Despite the crowd, I had plenty of time to check out the ICE presence at JFK’s other terminals. I saw the same thing in each one: ICE agents, sometimes from ERO and sometimes from other divisions, gathered together near the check-in area. Sometimes a pair would break off and walk around. They weren’t violently arresting anyone, but they also weren’t helping manage the crowds, which is ostensibly why they had been dispatched to JFK and other airports in the first place.

    Read more: [https://www.theverge.com/policy/899855/ice-airports-tsa-shutdown-dhs-jfk](https://www.theverge.com/policy/899855/ice-airports-tsa-shutdown-dhs-jfk)

  3. Reddit_anon_man on

    “On Monday, President Donald Trump deployed between 100 and 150 ICE agents to several airports to, he claimed, manage these growing, impatient crowds and alleviate wait times. Almost immediately after the fact, a video began circulating of ICE agents tackling a woman to the ground at San Francisco International Airport. ”

    Maybe this is Trump repaying the tech bros. ICE tackling, beating and sometimes killing people sure drives lots of clicks

  4. Additional_Quiet2600 on

    Deporting people. They are standing around joking and doing nothing to help lines. According to Steve Bannon this is just a test run for them being swarmed at polling places. They are normalizing a paramilitary force that will be present in people’s day to day. Funny that 90 percent of them aren’t wearing masks. I thought that they needed them and the Democrats are just trying to get their families killed? 🙃

  6. bumpy_disposition on

    They’re going to arrest/kidnap ppl in line, thus decreasing the ppl waiting in line and increasing seat availability.

  7. Caraes_Naur on

    The same thing they were doing in Minneapolis: waiting for a pretext to declare martial law and suspend elections.

  11. rom_rom57 on

    They have no clearances to go in the secured areas. All it would take a a bogus ICE guy getting into the secured part of the airport with a gun.

  15. ThenOwl9 on

    don’t pay federal taxes anymore y’all.

    revolution truly starts when we stop giving them our money

  17. mr_evilweed on

    For chrissakes… how can anyone expect them to help be TSA agents? They’re not even trained to be *ICE agents*.

  19. masnosreme on

    They’re there to make it seem like Trump is fixing the issue which is doubly important now that he’s actively impeding efforts to *actually* fix the problem.

  20. GoldenC0mpany on

    They are there to get America used to seeing them in public places so that come midterms, they can take over election facilities.

  21. terry496 on

    They’re going to privatize the TSA.

    First, the gov’t forces delays through the removal of funding. Then, they send ICE in to make things better by simply standing around.
    Surprisingly, the lines get shorter as the manufactured problem goes away. The fault is then laid at the feet of how the TSA is being run, and someone suggests that a business mogul could make things better. This is the same script that’s being applied to the Post Office, albeit faster.

  22. Overly_Underwhelmed on

    they are there so you can bitch about that instead of the trump-epstein child rape files.

    Release ALL the files!

  23. New_Y0rker on

    At JFK they are currently being trained by TSA to do travel document checking duties and to give advisements to passengers (TAKE OUT YOUR LAPTOPS, NO WATER)

    TSA officers are not on board with this and do not want them there in any capacity.

  24. MakalakaPeaka on

    Wasting American’s tax dollars. I suppose we should be happy they’re not murdering and kidnapping us still, but yeah, that’s exactly what they’re doing. Milling about like the useless wastes of oxygen they are.

  25. SuchBravado on

    For all I’ve seen of ICE they are sub-mall security perhaps displaced by online shopping.

  27. jkvincent on

    Trump wants to normalize having his private army intruding on Americans’ everyday life. That’s what they’re doing.

  28. chiaboy on

    They’re getting Americans used to the presence of ICE. As well as ICE asking for ID.

    It’s a warm up for the mid-terms (and beyond)

  29. gta0012 on

    Wish democrats would learn how to position this shit.

    It’s government waste, call it such.

  31. Exwl114 on

    Everyone needs to understand this. They are doing this as a test run for November elections, they want to put ICE at polling locations. It’s part of the plan to steal the elections. They are trying to intimidate and keep people from voting.

  32. Significant_Jump9887 on

    They’re normalizing their presence. Every post about them “doing nothing” is deeply missing the point.

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