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Jesse Cail 1d ago

You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-airport-tsa-federal-immigration-agents-4cfb93f7d2ff5a1ccb87d1bdbf54b959

ICE seen at Atlanta airport amid partial shutdown

Armed federal immigration officers in tactical gear moved through terminals at some of the busiest U.S. airports Monday, standing near security lines and checkpoints after President Donald Trump ordered their deployment during a partial government shutdown that has disrupted air travel nationwide. The officers have not screened passengers so far. The Trump administration said they would supplement Transportation Security Administration staffing at certain airports but provided few details about exactly what they would be doing. After intensified immigration enforcement and protests in cities across the country over the past year, their presence has unsettled some travelers and raised new questions.

AP News

Jaye 🍊2d ago

@danirabbit Same ideology, same method, same results.

Miles Offit... 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦2d ago

@danirabbit Honestly I'm stunned at how quietly and easily Americans have accepted this as the new normal.

Danielle Foré 2d ago

@dcdeejay don’t worry there’s another “no kings” protest next weekend!

@danirabbit @dcdeejay
No doubt that will show them.

derptron 2d ago

@dcdeejay @danirabbit I've more or less been waiting for this since I was 12 and read 1984.

Hans van Zijst 2d ago

@Miles Offit... 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 The Overton window shifts faster and faster since Agent Orange came to power.

Clinton was almost impeached for boinking an intern, Trump isn't even impeached for holding back information about him raping minors on Epstein Island. Not even mentioning the looooong list of other transgressions.

@Danielle Foré

Alessandro Corazza 🇨🇦1d ago

It has nothing to do with the price of gas, ergo it doesn't matter.

Joan of Contention 😷1d ago

@dcdeejay Just like last century.

Sharp Cheddar Goblin 2d ago

@danirabbit Nazism goes full circle. The USA must be destroyed.

@danirabbit Sending ICE to airports has the effect of metastasizing the Minneapolis fiasco nationwide. Thugs galore! Not only will this intensify the Resistance, but it will piss off well-heeled travelers everywhere.

Steven Lipton 21h ago

@idyll @danirabbit and well-heeled travelers are often Republicans. This puts a whole class of people who didn’t get exposure to ICE right there in their face.

@MakeAppPie @danirabbit Exactly

BigLinter 2d ago

@danirabbit check if your family has an old ww2 arian passpaper thing, the n-th generation german... maybe thatll work

Danielle Foré 2d ago

@biglinter lmao I’m Mexican. The furthest documentation I have is my grandpa’s military service card

BigLinter 2d ago

@danirabbit at its current state, i am still surprised that anyone would want to travel within the us

the us is seeing the brain drain of the century, theyre basically done for it.

Philip Mallegol-Hansen 1d ago

@biglinter I do actually happen to have my (Polish) great-grandfathers Nazi passport in a box of family memorabilia in the house.

Boy I just *loooooove* that we’re going to live through that again.

@danirabbit yep

Chris Hessert 2d ago

Not a wise time to be traveling to or in the United States. I am sad to say that, but…. (US Vet)

ShadSterling 2d ago

@danirabbit how is this legal? Are there really no requirements for training and whatnot that prohibit arbitrarily swapping who’s doing which job? Or spending money from the ICE bucket for TSA spending?

Danielle Foré 2d ago

@ShadSterling turns out “legal” only matters when people agree to enforce the law

ShadSterling 1d ago

@danirabbit that’s true… the first time I heard budget news after DOGE I wondered why it mattered when the administration will just spend where it wants and Republicans in Congress and SCOTUS will do nothing to stop them. Since then I fell back into the habit of treating it like it matters. And, it does, but not like it used to

PedestrianError

@ShadSterling @danirabbit Of course if the DHS budget is flexible enough to pay ICE agents at their $100k/yr salaries to do work outside their job description, they could easily flex the money to pay the TSA agents their paltry $40k salaries. The agency is flush with money. Not paying TSA, FEMA & every DHS employee whose job isn't overt racist violence is a choice.

tend2wobble 2d ago

@danirabbit Time for clandestine shouts of “Fuck ICE” to echo thru US airport terminals. People! Stand Together!!

@danirabbit I keep wondering if the largest part of US citizens, not casting their vote on elections, have any feeling about what they built, with their indolence.

AnnieBuddy 2d ago

Like this will speed things up.

Just like everything else they do, I suspect it will have the opposite effect.

celeste_hearts_disability_pride

@danirabbit

Always makes me think of The Great Escape. "Good Luck", "Thank You"...

When they rolled out professional molesters at the airports, I was done. I take trains and buses. I haven't been on a plane in 21 years.

And now it's getting worse?

Bill Zaumen 1d ago

@danirabbit The idea that "in every movie set during WWII there's a scene were Nazis are checking papers on the trains" is not really valid.
Counterexamples:
"To be or not to be" (1942 version ).
"Das Boot" (nearly all of it on a submarine)
"Der Untergang" (last days in Hitler's bunker)
"Green for Danger" (murder mistery/comedy in a British hospital during World-War II).
"South Pacific" (WWII but not in Europe).
"Casablanca"
"Bridge on the River Kwai"

Sibrosan 1d ago

@bzdev @danirabbit

So the US is worse

Bill Zaumen 20h ago

@sibrosan @danirabbit It was more a case of a number of movies set during WWII not having scenes with trains or not being set in Europe.

Comrade elronxenu 1d ago

@danirabbit A uniquely dysfunctional country.

altim 🇪🇺 🔒🌍🌳📰

@danirabbit I wonder how Americans would react if they would actually speak German?

Hans van Zijst 1d ago

@altim 🇪🇺 🔒🌍🌳📰:linux: People who speak several languages are called polyglots.

People who speak 2 languages are called bilinguals.

People who only speak 1 language are called Americans.

😇

@Danielle Foré

altim 🇪🇺 🔒🌍🌳📰

@hans 😂

altim 🇪🇺 🔒🌍🌳📰

@hans And they speak American.