Must be a job they all want seeing as how they don't have to wear masks for this stuff.
That being said if anyone photographed was doing some shady in a mask someone using AI is going to have a field day unmasking them.
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Must be a job they all want seeing as how they don't have to wear masks for this stuff.
That being said if anyone photographed was doing some shady in a mask someone using AI is going to have a field day unmasking them.
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A mole inside DHS (who gave me permission to post) just informed me that ICE agents were given no instructions on what their role would be prior to arrival and simultaneously, TSA supervisors were effectively told overnight, “figure out how to use them.”
Throughout the day directives and updates have been coordinated but no process of formally training ICE agents on how to use the software or train them on how to be temporary TSA agents has been provided.
This has resulted in some ICE agents shadowing TSA reps on how to process IDs and some how to help move passengers through lines at security but has also resulted in some supervisors simply not wanting to deal with it which is why you’re seeing agents just “hanging out.”
Meanwhile, premium airlines had hired private contractors to assist with coordinating lines and non-technical TSA roles and have effectively declined ICE’s assistance since they were already not dealing with long lines.
All this to say it appears there was never any plan on how to use ICE agents at airports and no coordination on how to implement them and it is likely more just political theater to consume the news cycle.
Even more harrowing is it is becoming more likely that the purpose is to actually get people to take photos and videos of them doing nothing to upset the Republican base into believing this is a Democrat shutdown.
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Throughout the day directives and updates have been coordinated but no process of formally training ICE agents on how to use the software or train them on how to be temporary TSA agents has been provided.
This has resulted in some ICE agents shadowing TSA reps on how to process IDs and some how to help move passengers through lines at security but has also resulted in some supervisors simply not wanting to deal with it which is why you’re seeing agents just “hanging out.”
Meanwhile, premium airlines had hired private contractors to assist with coordinating lines and non-technical TSA roles and have effectively declined ICE’s assistance since they were already not dealing with long lines.
All this to say it appears there was never any plan on how to use ICE agents at airports and no coordination on how to implement them and it is likely more just political theater to consume the news cycle.
Even more harrowing is it is becoming more likely that the purpose is to actually get people to take photos and videos of them doing nothing to upset the Republican base into believing this is a Democrat shutdown.
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A mole inside DHS (who gave me permission to post) just informed me that ICE agents were given no instructions on what their role would be prior to arrival and simultaneously, TSA supervisors were effectively told overnight, “figure out how to use them.” Throughout the day directives and...
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Homan on ICE: "We're doing a security function at the airports. We're gonna arrest criminals going through airports, we're gonna look for human trafficking, sex trafficking, money launder-- ah, you know, money smuggling"
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Homan on ICE: "We're doing a security function at the airports. We're gonna arrest criminals going through airports, we're gonna look for human trafficking, sex trafficking, money launder-- ah, you know, money smuggling"
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Trump’s ousted Border Patrol Leader Bovino lashes out at Trump Admin & ICE leadership after humiliating downfall
The man at the forefront of the most aggressive immigration crackdown in modern American history is going out swinging.
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol “commander at large” whose rampage through American cities ended with the deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis, sat down with The New York Times and took jabs at colleagues who, he says, never had the guts to match him.
He took a shot at Tom Homan, the border czar Trump called on to take over immigration operations in Minneapolis after Bovino himself was given the boot. Referencing accusations that Homan once accepted a $50,000 cash bribe in a paper bag, Bovino told the Times: “You’re not going to see me talking to anyone for a bag of money.”
After the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota, a White House source told Axios that “Bovino should be blamed” for the misinformation around the victim, “not Stephen.”
Bovino, for his part, conceded that he and Miller had “spirited” conversations at times. He reserved similar contempt for the broader bureaucracy around him, dismissing superiors as “status quo” desk jockeys who prioritized intelligence-led arrests over the “turn and burn” tactics he championed.
Bovino was often photographed in the middle of the madness his immigration sweeps created, lobbing gas canisters and jostling with protesters.
By the end of his national tour, one official told the Times, Bovino had taken things a step further by deliberately engineering confrontations at convenience stores and on the street specifically to generate content for social media.
The Times also unearthed previously unreported legal documents that shed light on just how far Bovino was willing to go. In court filings stemming from a discrimination lawsuit brought by four agency employees in New Orleans—who alleged he gave preferential treatment to less qualified white and male agents—Bovino admitted to calling undocumented people “scum,” “trash,” and “filth” in a speech to his agents.
He insisted he had been referring to criminals such as child rapists, then added: “All illegal aliens are criminals.” The cases were settled. His career was unaffected.
The same documents reveal a stranger, previously unreported, detail about how Bovino responded to the discrimination allegations in the lawsuit. In the legal filings, Bovino identified himself as “Native American” and his tribe as Cherokee, testifying that he had done so since he was 8 years old despite not being registered on any official tribal rolls. To reward top performance among his agents, he told the Times, he gave out tomahawks, traditional tribal axes.
It was also revealed that Bovino is now under internal investigation for making disparaging remarks about a Jewish prosecutor in Minnesota who took time off for Shabbat, Judaism’s weekly day of rest and spiritual renewal.
He told the Times he only learned of the probe through the newspaper’s reporting—not from his own superiors. He said that the accusations were “made by troglodytes.”
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