""ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security. TSA officers spend months learning to detect explosives, weapons, and threats specifically designed to evade detection at checkpoints—skills that require specialized instruction, hands-on practice, and ongoing recertification.""
""Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap. It creates one. Instead of solving the problem of the 50,000-plus TSA employees who have worked without pay for over five weeks, Washington's answer isn't to pay them. It's to send ICE agents to do their jobs.""
""TSA receives its funding from DHS, meaning its more than 50,000 frontline officers are not getting paid but are required to work as they are deemed essential employees. More than 400 TSA employees have quit and thousands more have called out of work.""
ICE agents are not trained in aviation security, according to Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees. TSA officers undergo extensive training to detect threats, which ICE agents lack. The ongoing government shutdown has left over 50,000 TSA employees unpaid, prompting the decision to use ICE agents for airport security. President Trump stated that ICE agents would assist with immigration checks, but Kelley emphasized that untrained personnel at security checkpoints creates more issues rather than solving existing problems.
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