Despite the plethora of reports over the past three years about the many ways in which border incursions are dangerous to Americans, new threats continue to emerge. These threats come not only from the incursions themselves, but also from the weak and half-hearted efforts of the White House to address the problems that the incursions have largely created.
The New York Post recently Story Last year, a man tried to stab a flight attendant on a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston but was thwarted when other passengers intervened. The intervention was necessary because air marshals normally assigned to such cross-country flights have been redeployed to the southern border to help with security and respond to the humanitarian crisis there, according to Sonia Labosco, a former senior air marshal who spoke for the National Council of Air Marshals.
Airport security guards are highly trained professionals, not reassigned to making sandwiches and handing out diapers in places filled with Border Patrol agents.
But wait, defenders of the current administration’s chaotic immigration policies might argue that sending more law enforcement agents to the border would be a good thing. That would be true if, under leadership with a sensible America First border strategy, those extra agents were helping to prevent illegal entry.
Unfortunately, airport security agents deployed to the border are “distributing water, making sandwiches, delivering Uber Eats … bringing diapers and other things into the facilities, unloading trucks,” LaBosco said. “It’s just ridiculous.”
This is some of the most direct evidence yet that, as critics have argued since all of 2021, the Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies are no longer guarding the border but instead serving as a welcoming committee for the masses who have flouted immigration laws and entered the country illegally. This is one of the worst examples of government misconduct, coming at a time when Americans’ trust in their leaders is understandably at a record low.
The Federal Air Marshal Service, as it is known today, was created in 1968 and is under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Security Administration. The attacks of September 11, 2001, exposed vulnerabilities in air travel security and created an urgent need for undercover law enforcement and counterterrorism investigators aboard commercial airliners.
“The long-haul flights are extremely important to us because they are the same flights that the hijackers actually targeted on 9/11,” LaBosco said.
Compounding the threat, the open border means potential terrorists may have an easier path into the U.S. than they did in 2001. The Department of Homeland Security has identified more than 400 foreign nationals, from Central Asia and elsewhere, as “persons of concern.” I input it Over the past three years, more than 50 people have entered the country illegally through ISIS-linked smuggling networks, of which over 150 have been arrested, and over 50 remain floating around the country.
According to a DHS Homeland Threat Assessment, federal agents Encountered There has been an increase in cases of individuals on the FBI’s terrorism watch list attempting to illegally cross the southern border. Given the gaps in the unfinished border wall and the lawlessness of the border, it would be naive to think that potential terrorists are not succeeding in their attempts to cross the border.
To make matters worse, more than 500,000 foreign nationals who have entered the country using the White House’s CBP One mobile app have Flight permitted domestic Without it Photo ID is a privilege not granted to U.S. citizens and legal residents.
A time out is needed to understand the logic at work here. Air marshals are being taken off commercial aircraft and deployed to assist with a border crisis. Potential terrorists may enter the country illegally and be allowed to board commercial aircraft without photo ID. That same aircraft does not have air marshals on board to prevent acts of terrorism. Let that make sense.
Even if no new terrorist acts occur during flights, the threat posed to passengers by the lack of airport security on board remains. There is a constant stream of news reports of psychopaths causing mayhem during flights. Having armed airport security on board can defuse the situation much more effectively than relying on other passengers. A passenger on the Los Angeles to Boston flight mentioned above was able to subdue the potential stab assailant. The next time a similar incident occurs, there is a good chance that someone will be injured or killed because there will not be police on the scene.
“Airport security officers are highly trained professionals performing an important job for our country. They should be entitled to do their jobs, not be reassigned to making sandwiches and handing out diapers at crowded borders. This is yet another insulting reminder that our government prioritizes the needs of foreigners over the safety of our citizens.”
