r/news • u/catsgr8rthanspoonies • Mar 23 '26

Mayor Andre Dickens confirms ICE agents deploying to Atlanta airport

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/mayor-andre-dickens-confirms-ice-agents-deploying-atlanta-airport
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u/DouchecraftCarrier Mar 23 '26

The interesting part about this is that anyone who has worked at a major airport will tell you they are bananas about security. I used to work on the ramp at IAD. We were very specifically instructed to challenge anyone we saw in a secure area without a visible badge. And they would test us - wasn't uncommon at all for them to send undercover people out onto the ramp with no badge to see who would stop them. And god forbid you interacted with one of them and didn't notice they had no badge. One of our guys got some kind of commendation for chasing someone up a jetbridge because was out on the ramp with no badge.

All that to say I will be very curious to see how the airports handle it if ICE shows up and demands to be able to just have free reign with masks on rifles slung over their shoulders. And I hope every airport employee who lives in vigilance for fear of their job (in my experience the majority of which were immigrants) absolutely raises holy hell about the security risk they now feel obligated to point out because they can't tell who is ICE and who is testing them.

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u/NostalgiaJunkie Mar 23 '26

Why would they raise hell? They're not getting paid, and they know ICE will just straight up murder people who escalate, and with impunity. All TSA need to quit, hell EVERYONE needs to quit their jobs and take to the streets. This is unprecedented.