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Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday
- java-man 7mo agoStep 2 in a nazi takeover of the United States. More is coming.
- Buttons840 7mo agoI don't know if I'd phrase it like that. It does show they see ICE as a fix all police they can deploy for a wide variety of purposes though. ICE is better funded than some branches of the military, and they are demonstrating they are willing to use ICE for whatever they think needs to be done.
- password54321 7mo agoIt is clear that a more centralised system is being established which is progression towards authoritarianism.
- pennomi 7mo agoHow is creation of a Gestapo analogue NOT a step towards Nazi-style authoritarianism?
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoDunno, you'd think the administration would prefer they be out on the streets rather than menacing business travelers. This may be pure legislative/executive incompetence rather than a grand scheme.
- estearum 7mo agoThe Nazis were also actually extremely incompetent. Thankfully the current admin is more incompetent, but truly one of the main downsides of strongman governments is that they tend to be operated by dummies.
- ryandrake 7mo agoHow 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.
- paulddraper 7mo agoVirtually all commercial passenger flights are to international airports.
- ryandrake 7mo agoAt 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.
- alexfoo 7mo agoSome international flights arrive in to domestic US terminals. These are from a limited set of countries where passengers have cleared US immigration in the departure country. Canada, Ireland and the UAE are the major three, plus Aruba, Barbados and Bermuda.
- smilebot 7mo agoSince they will support tsa operations, I’m going to assume they will be at the outbound security checkpoints. Both domestic and international.
- Buttons840 7mo agoICE 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.
- vkou 7mo agoKeep 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.
- 0xy 7mo agoDemocrats are explicitly opposed to a clean DHS funding bill with no changes.
- KaiserPro 7mo ago> They aren't clean bills, so this is absolutely irrelevant. I mean its not really irrelevant, its a calculated move from both sides.
- vkou 7mo agoTheir 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.
- yodon 7mo agoFor all its flaws, TSA (at least under previous administrations) did a lot of design thinking work around how to streamline flows through airports, minimize travel stress and conflict, and optimize to minimize traveler complaints while continuing to maintain security. Bringing in shock theater optimized staff is a particularly poor fit for a scenario that will impact a disproportionately voting and bipartisan pool of citizens. There's a reason advertising in airports is generally targeted at corporate leaders and decision makers.
- themafia 7mo ago> while continuing to maintain security. They continued to maintain the illusion of security. The underwear bomber and shoe bomber had no problem smuggling explosives onto an aircraft directly under their noses. Their idea of "security" is to get you into a scanner so they can stare at and save images of your naked body. Or to buy really expensive "sniffer" robots that don't work in one of the most corrupt government contracts recently known about. Meanwhile, cockpit doors still have several functional deficiencies that make pilots vulnerable to the original attack that led to the creation of this derelict agency.
- ryandrake 7mo agoIf your goal is to intimidate and frighten people into submitting to you, then sending armed, masked "shock theater" thugs in should accomplish that goal.
- LightBug1 7mo agoThe US tourism industry must be just lapping this up ... "Visit the USA ... starting your holiday off wiv your papers, and a bang! Schnell !!! "
- zoklet-enjoyer 7mo agoThis country is a shithole
- rdegges 7mo agoStraight 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.
- zthrowaway 7mo ago[flagged]
- rdegges 7mo agoThrowaway accounts and more propaganda isn’t proof of anything. I think it’s pretty clear that untrained, unaccountable armed people who have already killed multiple US citizens that they have no jurisdiction over is a real-world worry that people have. It’s silly to dismiss rational, logic-based worry as “propaganda”.
- zthrowaway 7mo ago[flagged]
- rdegges 7mo ago> Yes US citizens that are putting themselves in a situation they shouldn’t have been in to begin with while threatening and provoking a violent reaction. This is not at all true. Plus, it's inconsequential -- ICE agents have no authority over US citizens except in extremely limited circumstances (https://www.perplexity.ai/search/9f4518c4-8a32-474a-bd92-3f13772d7b09 https://www.perplexity.ai/search/9f4518c4-8a32-474a-bd92-3f1...), and even if they did, being able to arrest someone, file charges, and work their way through the justice system is the answer... Not killing people on the streets.
- cosmicgadget 7mo ago
- vjvjvjvjghv 7mo agoSeems ICE is basically just a slush fund to use wherever they see fit.
- ndsipa_pomu 7mo agoTrump's private army, selected for loyalty.
- mullingitover 7mo agoSeems like a big own-goal for the administration to inject an agency which (according to polls[1]) is quite broadly hated into the daily lives of millions. Politically they're just going from failure (immigration policy broadly considered a failure) to failure (starting a new forever war in the middle east is universally hated) to failure (this). It's no wonder they're trying to burn the election system to the ground to prevent a fair election from occurring this year. It's the only way they're staying out of jail, especially Tom "cash bribes only" Homan. [1] https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-actions-of-ice-february-2026/ https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-actions-of-ice-febru...
- paulddraper 7mo agoHow did they get elected?
- apothegm 7mo agoMisinformation, low voter turnout, and an electoral system that massively over-represents people living in areas of low population density and underrepresents those living in areas of high population density. That’s ignoring any possibility of interference with insecure voting or tallying computers.
- altairprime 7mo agoDon’t forget racism. This administration got elected in large part because they are openly racist, delivering outcomes at a velocity that ‘Southern’ dog-whistle deniability doesn’t allow for those that do, for whatever reason, want to continue having positive or neutral reputation with those opposed to racism (which includes half of U.S. women, or more if you limit to those younger than 30) while also benefiting personally from racism’s privileges to them and their families.
- 5555624 7mo agoracism was a minor factor in the 2024 election. Had Harris been white, she still would have lost. She ran a campaign that said nothing about what she as going to do, she only said how evil Trump would be. She lost the election when she was asked on "The View," a Democrat friendly show, if there was anything she would do differently than Biden. There's only one wrong answer to that question ad she gasve, saying not a thing. Had she just said she'd tackle the border and illegal immigration, she'd have had a chance. Had Biden kept to his word and been one and one, the Democrats would have had a primary and selected a candidate who could have won. (Harris would not have won the nomination in any sort of primary.)
- theturtle 7mo ago[dead]
- decimalenough 7mo agoWelp, good thing there's absolutely no way this could go horribly wrong.
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoAs long as no planes drive in the direction of the terminal.
- iJohnDoe 7mo agoI wonder how this will impact the economy. People deciding not to travel won’t help anything. You would think this is the last thing the administration would want to do at this point.
- jeremie_strand 7mo ago[flagged]
- tsoukase 7mo agoAt the time I avoid traveling to the US and just watching eating popcorn. This summer football Mundial is going to be held and in 2028 the summer Olympics. It will the first time that a country that hosts these goes a foreigners' hostile way.