After last January’s ICE shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti…who could have foreseen that these ugly murders would prompt Congressional Democrats to punish U.S. travellers nationwide for God knows how long?
Democratic message in a nutshell: “Because Good and Pretti were brutally shot to death, average Americans must pay the price and then some, mainly because we don’t have the votes to overrule Republicans. So Average Joes and Janes will keep on paying the price throughout the spring and perhaps longer….who knows?”
The Homeland Security shutdown, which has lasted over five weeks so far, is basically about Democrats insisting upon trying to control immigration enforcement abuses by withholding funding. They have thereby caused the pay of airport TSA agents to be frozen. Those poor TSA agents have been without pay for close to six weeks now. They can’t pay their bills. They’re in agony. And the entire Washington legislative community is going on spring beak next week? Throw the bums out!
N.Y. Times: “Yesterday (Wednesday) Democrats sent a proposal with ‘common-sense guardrails‘ on federal immigration agents, which they have demanded be part of any agreement, but South Dakota Senator John Thune, the Senate majority leader, called that a nonstarter.
“The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration told a House committee that security checkpoints at the nation’s airports were experiencing ‘the highest wait times in history‘ because of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. The administrator, Ha Nguyen McNeill, said agent absences have soared to more than 40 percent at some airports since the shutdown began.”