The Biden Administration has quietly ordered Federal Air Marshals to begin mandatory deployments to the southern border to help with a surge in migrant encounters just as the holiday air travel season begins.
“As part of a DHS wide effort, (LE/FAMS) has been called upon to redeploy Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) to the Southwest Border,” Tirrell Stevenson, Executive Assistant Administrator and Director of the Transportation Security Administration’s Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service wrote to Air Marshals in a November 14 email shared with the Herald.
According to Stevenson’s email, it may be “operationally necessary” to assign deployments to Air Marshals from “all field offices and Headquarters assignments” despite a history of some Marshals voluntarily assisting Border Patrol agents.
“A transparent, equitable and consistent selection process and deployment plan has been developed and agreed to by all LE/FAMS Supervisory Air Marshals in Charge,” Stevenson wrote.
CBP has been dealing with a significant spike in migrant encounters at the border with Mexico, according to data released this month. According to CBP, their officers encountered 2 million migrants at the southern border in fiscal 2022, up from 1.7 million encounters in fiscal 2021.
Air Marshals have begun to deploy to the border on a mandatory schedule of 21 day waves, with the second such wave starting on November 16 and running through December 7, information shared with the Herald showed.
According to David Londo, the President of the Air Marshal National Council, these deployments are leaving “a gaping hole in our aviation security.”
“What is happening during the busiest travel time of the year, a time where the homeland has been attacked twice in the past, the shoe and underwear bombers, is irresponsible and dangerous,” he told the Herald. “As our families board flights this holiday season they will assume the government is doing their job of protecting their flights, but instead the reality is the government is prioritizing the welfare of migrants over their security.”
Londo has filed a complaint against both Stevenson and TSA Director David Pekoske with Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, in which he says the decision to deploy Air Marshals, who are generally regarded as the most elite marksmen in law enforcement, to the nation’s southern border is both a waste of their “highly specialized” training and a violation of the law.
Pekoske and Stevenson are sending Marshals to El Paso, Laredo, and McAllen, Texas, as well as San Diego, California and Yuma, Arizona, according to Londo. While there, he told the Inspector General, Marshals are performing “Hospital Watch, Transportation, Law Enforcement Searches, Welfare Checks, and Entry Control.”
“The agency documents never describe or mention that these duties have any relation to TSA’s core mission of transportation security. Instead, the duties relate to assisting migrants who have crossed the border into the United States,” he wrote.
A spokesperson for the TSA said Marshals deployed to the border before, in 2019, and that the rotations are temporary.
“The deployment of Federal Air Marshals to execute DHS’ mission at the southwest border on a reimbursable basis is temporary. At the same time, our expert Federal Air Marshal Service workforce continues their important work in transportation security,” they said.
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That’s all they likly will be doing.. CERTAINLY NOT keeping the invadors out?
Sending an Air Marshall to handle people crossing rivers is like sending Hunter to control the influx of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine. Apparently, Joe has plans to free fly more illegals into the interior to spread the social contamination of our Social systems to deplete the fundings so legal Americans can lose benefits. Perhaps the Drug Lords are now getting bold enough to just carry their illegal drugs onto our commercial flights in their backpacks and Joe needs to clear the way so they won’t get molested by the Air Marshalls, just like he diverts our Border patrol from the border to babysit incoming law breakers leaving the border totally defenseless. Obama was right when he said ““don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up”‘
Funny how F**** things up always makes Joe Richer, or gets him more votes. Me thinks there is method to this madness.
We have an army to stop invasion. Maybe it is time to use them.
First close the border, then comes the rattlesnake roundup. Put a $1000 bounty on each one caught and deported and get a 3000 percent return on investment for money now wasted on social programs to feed, house, transport medicate them, not to mention patrol the border. This Biden border policy will prove to be the greatest American social crime against honest humanity that happens in this century, not to mention the greatest redistribution of AMerican wealth from the domestic producers to the foreign consumers in history.
Knowing how to stop it is one thing, now tell us how you are going to make the Biden administration do it.
Bad weeds cannot bear good fruit. These barambles need to be tossed in the fire, where the wheat is separated from the chaff. Only then will our sticky situations cease to exist. Compromise with the devil and you are halfway to hell, usually based upon THEIR half truths.
To get the ball rolling, the federal government needs to be completely defunded, the only exception being those armed personnel who provide the security of our country. Every single bureaucrat, manager and politician needs to be without a paycheck and benefits until our border is secured, Furthermore, all spending on entitlements, grants, foreign aid and everything else the feds waste our tax dollars on should be included. And just turn off the lights at the Department of Justice and see what shakes loose…
Unfortunately we can’t.. TILL WE CAN OUST THEM in 2024.. Assuming even then, we CAN oust them…
The House has total control of the purse strings, and if they don’t pass bills funding the government, there is no money to pay agencies and personnel.
Assuming they have the BALLS TO do anything about this, via cutting the purse strings to these agencies…