Democrats have spent the last month and a half – with the help/complicity of much of our media – preventing funding for TSA agents at the airports. This has caused damage – probably irreparable damage in at least the short run – to staffing of this imperative security function.
And we all know about Democrats’ hatred of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
So what has President Trump done? He has married the two. He has sent ICE agents to alleviate the mess Democrats orchestrated at the airports.
So how is this working out?
Let’s find out, via this segment from Nick Arama’s article for redstate.com:
The Democrats have refused to pass funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). That helped to cause chaos at the airports after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had hundreds of its employees quit because they weren’t being paid. Then, too, some are calling in sick. The wait times to get through security ballooned up to hours, with mammoth lines. Not only that, but it puts all of us in a more dangerous situation when the whole of the DHS isn’t being funded and protecting our security.
But Trump, after seeing the mess at the airports, then thought of sending ICE agents in to help. As Border Czar Tom Homan, who is in charge of the effort, explained, they can help relieve the TSA, allowing them to do more screening of people through the checkpoints by picking up other duties like security around the airport.
That, of course, had some Democrats flipping out. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) went full-bore crackers, claiming ICE was going to be brutalizing people and shooting them at the airports. They can’t stand to lose their hostage-taking of the TSA and the American people.
But then, guess what? Even CNN noticed a change at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Their senior national correspondent, Ryan Young, said that the lines had dropped off significantly since the morning, that the lines were under 30 minutes, which sounds a lot closer to normal wait times. He also checked through the terminals and found that the wait times were dropping around the airport. and were similar. He declared it “fantastic.”
How nice it would be if the majority of our media thought this newsworthy. But they don’t…or, more exactly, they proactively choose not to report it. Go to my next blog and read all about it.
