This is both nutty and entertaining. DHS hasn’t received all its funds yet, so the TSA and air traffic controllers aren’t being paid. And gas prices are through the roof, so they can’t afford to get to work. Well, if Gnome hadn’t screwed up so badly with her ICE, ICE, Baby, they might not be in this predicament. But she did, and they are. So, Dingdong Donnie has come up with a novel solution, or so he thinks. Thank you, Raw Story and Raw Story, because I’m putting two articles in one column:
President Donald Trump vowed Sunday to make good on his previous threat to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports nationwide in a fiery rant shared on social media. “On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard line criminals who have entered our Country illegally, are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
We can see the disaster coming. ICE in airports is going to be Very Bad. Which job will they do – immigrants or airport duty? And will they get distracted by a potential illegal immigrant, or will they do the job they are there for? We know those morons don’t have any guardrails. We know they don’t listen. We know they don’t care about whoever they grab, no matter where it is. And now, airports. Gawd save us.
“But watch, no matter how great a job ICE does, the Lunatics leading the incompetent Dems will be highly critical of their work,” Trump continued. “THEY WILL DO A FANTASTIC JOB. The great Tom Homan is in charge!!!”
There’s a problem with that, considering how fast this is being thrown together. Let’s hear from Donnie Dumba$$’s co-star. Here’s Tom Homan!
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Tom Homan, who inherited former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s duties after she was fired, was pressed by host Dana Bash about training for agents with no airport security experience. According to Homan, it is a “work in progress,” and details are still being worked out before the Monday deadline. “Are ICE agents even remotely trained to handle security at airports?” the CNN host asked. “I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine because they’re not trained in that,” he admitted.
Well, that’s something. The thought of ICE at the machines gives me the creeps. They could lie, and no one could oppose them because there’s no proof, although I don’t know if the X-rays are recorded. Supposedly, the nasty full-body scanner records, which are slow as hell, aren’t kept either. Those are *really* creepy. And the alternate choice isn’t any better. But I digress. We’re discussing ICE at airports, not what people have to go through for security. CNN has a section showing wait times at some major airports. One of the Texas locations has a 90-minute wait. I can’t see ICE changing that.
“Ice agents receive high-level training,” Homan insisted. “And, you know, ICE agents are assigned at many airports across the country already. They do a lot of investigation, criminal investigation on smuggling reports. But, you know, there’s, I mean, there’s a lot of TSA agents covering exits, you know, people that enter through the exits. You know, certainly a highly trained ICE law enforcement officer can cover an exit that makes people don’t go through those exits entering the airport, through the exits. That stuff like that relieves the TSA officer to go to screening and to, to reduce those lines. “
Wheee, caught him flat-footed. Oops. Part of it is amusing because we all know damn well the agents are not highly trained, or at least most of them are not. Will they put the non-new agents in the airports? People with some sense? Nah. It’s going to be a disaster. And travelers will be screaming. This is a Bad Idea. Dimwit Donnie thinks it’s great. Oy.
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