Police advocacy groups say that in a March 2023 attack on a United Airlines flight, airport security officers deployed to the southern border were unable to protect passengers.
of new york post I spoke with Sonia Labosco, a retired Federal Air Marshal with the Air Marshal National Council. Said Friday. According to LaboSco’s X profileShe’s also an advocate for law enforcement.
The deadly attack on a United Airlines flight could have been avoided if airport security had not monitored migrants at the border, the union said. “Our worst fears have been realized.” https://t.co/vW1C1x8RUu pic.twitter.com/keNCs2C5QM
— New York Post (@nypost) July 5, 2024
LaBosco said major air traffic is at risk because the federal government is deploying air marshals to the border for about 21 days.
LaBosco knew that airport security was always present on flights from Los Angeles to Boston, but when the incident occurred, airport security was not present, leaving fearful passengers on Flight 2609 to fend for themselves and contact her.
The man accused in this case Identified Francisco Severo Torres of Leominster, Massachusetts, was accused of opening the plane door and trying to stab a flight attendant in the neck, NBC Boston reported in September, which led authorities to charge him with obstructing a flight attendant or flight attendant with a dangerous weapon and attempted obstruction.
Another passenger was sitting a few rows away from Torres. Recorded He began yelling at others during the flight, after which he got up from his seat and walked down the aisle, apparently becoming aggressive towards those in his way, according to KTLA.
In an interview she postLaBosco detailed what airport security officers were allegedly doing at the border. post continuation:
Airport security officers were stationed at the border that day and on other days, but they were only “distributing water, making sandwiches, doing Uber Eats deliveries … bringing diapers and other things into the facilities, unloading trucks,” LaBosco said, adding that it was “totally ridiculous.”
There is a big concern that by removing airport security officers from law enforcement duties and freeing up millions of migrants to cross the southern border illegally and take commercial flights, another 9/11 could easily happen, LaBosco said.
In 2022, Breitbart News reported that President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was removing federal air marshals from domestic commercial flights to check on people crossing the border and the living conditions of undocumented immigrants, according to Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.).
The media pointed out:
As Breitbart News previously reported, air marshals play a small role in the Biden administration’s expansive capture and release network that has released more than 1.4 million border crossers and illegal immigrants onto U.S. soil since February 2021.
However, some Republican lawmakers are trying to halt the deployment, the outlet reported in March.
“Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and August Plueger (R-Texas) have introduced legislation that would block President Joe Biden from deploying federal air marshals off domestic commercial flights to the U.S.-Mexico border to escort migrants into the United States,” the article read.
