TSA employees have been working without pay during a partial shutdown of DHS over demands to reform immigration enforcement.
More than 400 Transportation Security Administration workers have quit since a partial government shutdown that began on Feb. 14 left them working without pay, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Funding was shut off to DHS over demands by Democrats for reforms at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection following alleged abuses and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis earlier this year.
There has also been a national callout rate of 10% at TSA on more than half the days of the last week, Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary for public affairs at DHS, said Saturday in response to questions.
The TSA shouldn’t have been formed in the first place. It’s expensive, invasive security theater.
I remember when the TSA first started after 9/11. People were extremely critical of them from the get go. I still remember when Joe Foss (WW2 Medal of Honor recipient and the highest scoring US Marine fighter pilot ever) was stopped by the TSA in 2002 because they thought that the Medal was a weapon of some kind and even his dummy bullet souvenirs were to be taken and destroyed… he was able to get them to not take away his medal (he had to mail it to himself at his destination). This caused a small scandal at the time.
ice is even worst, since they are going to takeover tsa at the airports.
LOL. Same people who say this shit their pants on 9/11 and threw away their rights.