Among other duties, the TSA is charged with screening passengers at U.S. airports via security checkpoints where agents force passengers to practically undress, be exposed to radiation-emitting x-ray machines, and be subjected to humiliating pat-downs in which scores of passengers have complained are too sexually exploitative.
But while American passengers are subjected to such outrages, the TSA’s parent agency, DHS, has been allowing non-citizens to board U.S. flights without proper documentation and, certainly, with far less than U.S. citizens are expected to present before boarding.
As reported by the Washington Examiner:
The federal agency tasked with overseeing security at transportation hubs has been violating its own policy by allowing migrants who have been released from federal custody onto flights despite not having required documents, according to several Department of Homeland Security officials.
For six months, the news site reported, TSA has been permitting migrants who have been released from the custody of other agencies that fall under DHS control to board planes to other parts of the United States even though the passengers did not have any of the 15 documents the agency says are the only acceptable forms of ID in order to fly.
So now, not only do illegal aliens not have to show an ID to vote in America, the don’t have to have one to get on board some flights, either.
DHS has refused to temporarily change federal policy or introduce a permanent solution since early December in order to address the problem, even as there are no indications that record apprehensions at the U.S. border, as well as mass releases of migrants, are going to abate soon.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released more than 200,000 migrants since January who presented themselves to U.S. border agents as part of a family. They must be released under a 2015 court decision barring ICE form holding families longer than 20 days.
Often, ICE personnel drops off migrants they are releasing at bus terminals where non-governmental groups have been pre-alerted to the drop-offs and thus send...
