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Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists

ICE agents are being paid to stand behind unpaid TSA officers who are showing up for work. Could the plan be to force unionized TSA officers to quit and then replace them temporarily with poorly trained ICE agents and then to "privatize" TSA to be outsourced to 3rd-party private cronies on the Right? Sounds like a plausible LT plan to me. #tsa #ice #privatization

Ivey Janette McClelland 3d ago

@SharonCrockett That's it. Hire folks from Labor Ready. No benefits. Minimum wage. No requirements except being white.

@IveyJanette @SharonCrockett Probably. They got noped by the courts earlier when they tried the union bust the TSA. They are still operating under collective bargaining agreement.

Ivey Janette McClelland 3d ago

@IcooIey @SharonCrockett And they'll go to SCOTUS to bust the union and hire unskilled whites.

Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3 3d ago

@SharonCrockett no masks? 🤔

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists 3d ago

@wb2ifs Yep, Trump ordered that ICE agents deployed to airports not wear masks.

Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦3d ago

@SharonCrockett @gdinwiddie wait … TSA folks are working unpaid?
"Essential service" or some such?

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists 3d ago

@deborahh @gdinwiddie They stopped getting paid some time ago.

Mirishuli 3d ago

@deborahh @SharonCrockett @gdinwiddie Yes. They haven’t been paid for a month now. That’s why they are all calling in sick now, they need to drive Uber or DoorDash just to have cash for food.

Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦3d ago

@MiriShuli @SharonCrockett @gdinwiddie wow 😢

Patrick W1PAC 3d ago

@SharonCrockett TSA officer here. It's plausible, especially since there are some airports which are already privatized and have been since day one.

Also, privatizing us is part of the Project 2025 plan.

Patrick W1PAC 3d ago

@SharonCrockett The only thing I'm confused by is the lady standing at the travel document checker podium... she's not wearing a TSA uniform, so I'm confused at to who she is, unless she's a TSA manager who's been roped into checking IDs.

MissConstrue 2d ago

@W1PAC @SharonCrockett

Yeah, now that I see the image larger (previously only phone, now system), she's wearing a purse. TSA don't wear bags, at least none that I remember. (Not a TSA employee, not even frequent flyer these days.)

And the look on her face...oh girl...that's the look of "See, I don't want to have to hide your body...but you are making me have to hide your body..."

Don Hawkins - W7DAH 3d ago

@SharonCrockett
ICE isn’t qualified to clean bird shit out of coo-coo clocks.

GulfofMexico 3d ago

@SharonCrockett be sure to save that photo and any others like it. It’s one of the rare examples of an ICE agent unmasked. We can use it when the crimes against humanity trials start.

Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists 3d ago

@CAman 💡great idea.