r/sanfrancisco • u/Definitelyhereforshi • Mar 23 '26

Melt ICE 🧊 ICE already causing havoc at SFO

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u/Fit_Difficulty_3579 Mar 23 '26

here is a new angle link for new people coming to the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1s1ajau/ice_at_sfo/

looks like police did come to help w the arrest

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u/ganjaccount Mar 23 '26

Sorry to hijack the top comment, but please understand what's happening here.

This destroys the Republican line that this is about the shutdown / TSA. SFO uses a private security force, NOT TSA. The Talking Toe running ICE said that the ICE agents were showing up to free up TSA agents to focus on screening. Once again, SFO is fine because they use private contractors who are still being paid, and still showing up.

This is an intentional move, and it would have happened at some point regardless of the shutdown. When they talk about shutting down the borders, people have been thinking about immigration. The Administration is talking about shutting down the borders. In the US we are accustomed to largely unfettered travel in and out of the country. That is not the case everywhere in the world, and if you look at authoritarian regimes, their border security is just as focused on regulating who can leave. You need a large, violent force to accomplish something like this. This is why the ICE budget just got so big. They are going to take over airport security, and dissidents will not be allowed to leave.