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
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    2 days ago

    I’m arguing with people who have never seen a hijacking, while I lived through all of them in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, AND 9/11, which many people here don’t even remember.

    No, that’s not how hijackings work, and not why they decreased. They did not “let the hijackers do what they want,” and anyway, how would that discourage hijacking? If they were letting the hijackers do whatever they want, wouldn’t that ENCOURAGE hijackers?

    They decreased because of steady improvement in security, until they had discouraged all but the most froggy terrorist, which is what we got on 9/11. Then they tightened up protocols even more, and we haven’t had any more hijackings.

    You guys are arguing with me, but this isn’t me saying this, it is the assessment of literally everyone who has studied it. All of the people in this thread are trying to support their arguments with invented facts that conflict with historical truth.

    • hark@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      No, that’s not how hijackings work, and not why they decreased. They did not “let the hijackers do what they want,” and anyway, how would that discourage hijacking? If they were letting the hijackers do whatever they want, wouldn’t that ENCOURAGE hijackers?

      Yes it was how it used to work, that’s why the planes would end up diverted. When that stopped being standard protocol, the hijackings reduced. You got it on that last sentence in that paragraph but for some reason think I’m arguing changing standard protocol to NOT allow hijackers to do their thing would encourage hijackers. You read my post backwards.