TSA employees have been working without pay during a partial shutdown of DHS over demands to reform immigration enforcement.

TSA employees have been working without pay during a partial shutdown of DHS over demands to reform immigration enforcement.

More than 400 Transportation Security Administration workers have quit since a partial government shutdown that began on Feb. 14 left them working without pay, the Department of Homeland Security said.

Funding was shut off to DHS over demands by Democrats for reforms at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection following alleged abuses and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis earlier this year.

There has also been a national callout rate of 10% at TSA on more than half the days of the last week, Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary for public affairs at DHS, said Saturday in response to questions.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    34·
    3 天前

    Did you get dropped on your head? When there’s a crazy guy waving a gun, and demanding to go to Cuba (that was really popular for a while, for some reason), NOBODY on the plane is thinking that this is just a guy stealing a plane, nothing to worry about. They are frightened for their very lives, not thinking that this isn’t a “real” hijacking. That’s about the most idiotic take I can imagine.

    Yeah, and they were nothing like 9/11, which was the very first time a plane had been used as a weapon of mass destruction before, and they used 4 of them simultaneously. It was really, really serious.

    But that doesn’t mean previous hijackings weren’t serious. People died in hijackings and rescues around the world all the time. It doesn’t have to be as big as 9/11, to still be serious.

    We dropped 2 atomic bombs at the end of WW2. They were really big, bigger than anything that came before. Does that mean the fire bombing of Tokyo wasn’t serious? The fire-bombing of Dresden into rubble wasn’t serious? How about all the other bombings we did in WW2? Were those not serious, just because something much bigger was in the future? I doubt the victims of the bombings would agree.

    And you know what, Einstein? YOU don’t get to determine which statistics are realistic or not. Get another couple of years of education, until you can spell Google, then look up the Wikipedia entry on Hijackings.