Surprise! Just one day before Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are supposed to be deployed to airports around the country to help reduce long lines caused by the partial government shutdown and spring break crowds, the Trump administration appears to have no coherent plan for what they will do.

Following Donald Trump’s announcement that ICE agents will be sent to airports starting on Monday to fill in for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees who have been on the job without pay for more than a month, administration officials gave conflicting statements about what exactly this would entail.

Officials at ICE were caught off guard by the president’s directive and have been rushing to create a plan, CBS News reported.

White House border czar Tom Homan, who Trump said would be in charge of the operation, told CNN on Sunday that ICE agents will be assigned to jobs like securing exit gates, allowing trained TSA officers to focus on checkpoints and reducing wait times.

“I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine because they’re not trained in that,” Homan said.

But when CNN host Dana Bash asked for confirmation about whether ICE agents would be posted at security screening lines, Homan responded, “Those discussions are going on now.” He said the administration hoped to have a plan “by the end of [Sunday].”

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[–] 32 points 7 months ago

Calling it now, a couple of them are going to "oops, lost my gun" inside the airport.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago

    They’ll increase learned helplessness among the people, and contribute to general Nazi-Germany vibe at the airports for all travelers, foreign and domestic. The fascism intensifies.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago

    Violently terrorize innocent Americans and break up families, like usual.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago*

    The same thing they've been doing elsewhere? Kidnapping and murdering brown people.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Slow shit down. Make everyone uncomfortable. Start shit. Be a bunch of fucking losers with guns and harass everyone.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Oh you know, Brownshirt stuff...

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    The things that ICE could conceivably do with zero training are not coming from the same labor pool that keeps the check points moving.

    This is theater at best, but in fairness most of airport security is theater too.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    The continued stupidity and utter incompetence of this administration continue to astound me.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago*

    Server admins literally told the Terrorists to spawn camp

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    just imagine going through an ice line as a woman. tsa was already gropy, now they got fucking masks?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Masks, body armor, and probably weapons of some kind.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    This is gonna do wonders for airline stocks.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Annoy and distract the people working there. They don't have training, don't know the airports, and don't take any burden off the staff that's trying to work. Staff will need to take time away from their duties to on-board all these new people who aren't useful.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Literally the family guy meme

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Hassle people in general. Assault and detain anyone who objects. Murder folks even they think they can get away with it. Just generally made the whole experience less safe for everyone.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    already seen video of them abducting a woman

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    I am not confused. They will detain and ship peops off to Alligator Auschwitz in the blink of an eye (already did it this morning) all in the name of efficiency and easy pickins.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    this a training run for ICE at Polling Booths in the midterms?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    What exactly will ICE do at airports? Accidently shoot each other.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    When you pass them in the airport, tell them their children hate them. That know it's true, and it will eat at them.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    They will cause trouble and generally make asses of themselves, while serving no public purpose whatsoever. Same as always. And they will slow airports down even worse than they already are.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Of course, Papers Please.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    To try and intimidated.... fucking traitors

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    "Kneel and show your papers!"

    Something tells me that won't speed things up any.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Surprise! Just one day before Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are supposed to be deployed to airports around the country to help reduce long lines caused by the partial government shutdown and spring break crowds, the Trump administration appears to have no coherent plan for what they will do.

    Yes, very surprising indeed.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Deport everybody

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Harass brown people, duh.

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    [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    We know it will not involve reading.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Just abducting innocent people and occasionally killing a bystander or two. Just the usual.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    They've been killing and attacking people so far because they've been overly aggressive. If they get to keep their gun on them..... probably not gonna be much different. It'll be interesting to see what happens when they kill someone at an airport. And I don't mean a good interesting.

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