{"id":21901,"date":"2026-03-25T15:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21901"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:37:02","slug":"security-screening-has-to-be-done-by-tsa-not-ice-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21901","title":{"rendered":"Security screening has to be done by TSA, not ICE. Here&#8217;s why."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security,&#8221; American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley previously said in a statement to USA TODAY. &#8220;TSA officers spend months learning to detect explosives, weapons, and threats specifically designed to evade detection at checkpoints \u2013 skills that require specialized instruction, hands-on practice, and ongoing recertification. You cannot improvise that. Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap. It creates one.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early reports from some travelers indicated that ICE\u2019s presence wasn\u2019t doing much to improve conditions \u2013 and for some employees it may be more disruptive than helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The employees that actually work at the airport, they&#8217;re afraid of coming to work because they were afraid that their immigration status would cause them to be detained or removed from the airport,\u201d Johnny Jones, secretary and treasurer of the Association of Federal Government Employees local 1040 representing TSA workers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, said in a March 24 press briefing. \u201cA couple of restaurants did not actually open at the airport because they had no workers show up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Harmon-Marshall doesn\u2019t expect ICE\u2019s presence to pose a risk to aviation security, it could have other adverse impacts. \u201cWhat I do think their presence is going to do is intimidate the traveling public,\u201d he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.yahoo.com\/advice\/safety\/articles\/tsa-officers-skilled-eye-ices-070142424.html\">https:\/\/travel.yahoo.com\/advice\/safety\/articles\/tsa-officers-skilled-eye-ices-070142424.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security,&#8221; American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley previously said in a statement to USA TODAY. &#8220;TSA officers spend months learning to detect explosives, weapons, and threats specifically designed to evade detection at checkpoints \u2013 skills that require specialized instruction, hands-on practice, and ongoing recertification. You cannot improvise that. Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap. It creates one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Early reports from some travelers indicated that ICE\u2019s presence wasn\u2019t doing much to improve conditions \u2013 and for some employees it may be more disruptive than helpful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The employees that actually work at the airport, they&#8217;re afraid of coming to work because they were afraid that their immigration status would cause them to be detained or removed from the airport,\u201d Johnny Jones, secretary and treasurer of the Association of Federal Government Employees local 1040 representing TSA workers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, said in a March 24 press briefing. \u201cA couple of restaurants did not actually open at the airport because they had no workers show up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Harmon-Marshall doesn\u2019t expect ICE\u2019s presence to pose a risk to aviation security, it could have other adverse impacts. \u201cWhat I do think their presence is going to do is intimidate the traveling public,\u201d he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/travel.yahoo.com\/advice\/safety\/articles\/tsa-officers-skilled-eye-ices-070142424.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1481,542,603,221,844,170,1480],"class_list":["post-21901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-airport","tag-congress","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-ice","tag-trump","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21902,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21901\/revisions\/21902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}