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  • ICE literally wouldn’t have a foot in the door with airports right now if they weren’t filling in for empty TSA positions.

    ICE agents keep getting a salary. TSA agents don’t.

    Might be worth recalling that the original purpose of TSA was to rebuild social confidence in the airline industry for purely private interests. We’d made an enormous investment in airports, airplane manufacturers, and attendant infrastructure going back to the early 1970s, and were suddenly faced with the prospect of half the industry going bankrupt.

    Airport security was, in effect, a bailout of a failing business model.

    What we’re seeing now is a state level refusal to pay for anything that restores confidence in an economic institution. Terror is the only method they know how to employ. ICE agents are unleashed as a punishment, rather than a security blanket.

    You’ll notice that nobody in the private sector seems interested in back filling the TSA jobs privately (a possibility that is legally permitted but more expensive than any public airport or airline wants to assume). Meanwhile, nobody in the legislative or executive level wants to admit this is security theater and dispense with it entirely.

    All anyone knows how to do is terrorize you for flying, terrorize you for complying, and terrorize you for questioning these decisions.