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.
But who’s going to grope children and ransack luggage?
Oh right, ICE.
Nevermind, crisis averted.
And this raises the question: the people who quit from TSA: where do they go work next?
Is ICE systematically poaching all the employees working for other federal, state and local enforcement agencies?
I’m honestly surprised the number is that low. If I wasn’t getting paid, I’d be looking for another job immediately.
Look at the jobs report and you’ll see why they’d rather tough it out/haven’t been hired anywhere else in all this time.
A lot of banks have been giving 0% loans to those affected, so the situation isn’t really as dire as media is making it out to be. This happens pretty regularly now during shutdowns.
We’re talking about people who aren’t capable of getting real jobs. That’s why they are TSA goons.
What a poorly worded article by NBC yet again. They refuse to state the truth because trump will sick his group of criminals on them, we don’t have free press anymore.
Also, who would want to work for a broke employer anyway? We are $39 TRILLION in debt thanks mostly to Donald Trump raising it $1 trillion every 4 months.
is it really quitting if your employer stops paying you?
I really don’t understand why any of them are showing up for work at all.
Fuck, I wouldn’t work without pay either. Hell, even slaves got fed at least. And its fucking sad to think of it that way, but it’s the truth.
Working this hated job and hoping to maybe get paid is fucked up on so many levels.
Gladly let the door kick them on the way out. Heard nothing but awful power tripping stories about them.
ICE is godawful and obviously worse. Both being gone would be great of course.
My wife is a wheelchair user. For one flight, we tried to arrive as quick as we could. The TSA agents processed us as fast as they could. Once done, a TSA agent grabbed my backpack and ran towards our plane so that I could push my wife’s wheelchair. Another agent had already gone to ask the flight crew to wait for us. We could have easily missed our flight. I wouldn’t call myself a TSA supporter but I know that they are good TSA agents out there.
Good. We really don’t need any security theater anyway
Unfortunately you continue to get security theater, but with an exponential increase in racism.
I don’t know about you, but I am so fucking sick of winning.
Some people depend on their paychecks to live/exist
They just announced that ice will be working with tsa at the airport in Atlanta. Oh boy, let’s have terrified travelers to and from us never go to the us again. They will be shipping you off the minute you land, I guess they will call it efficient.
Just when you think they cannot get a more stupid.
I don’t understand how payrolls just stop immediately.
Don’t they budget for the year? So they have one year’s worth of payroll set aside?
It’s all about how the US government operates. The budget is actually non-binding, it’s a framework that is used to write the further appropriations bills that actually allocate money to departments. The problem here is that the Homeland Security Department is the only body that does not have its funds appropriated for the remainder of the fiscal year.
While there is a lapse in appropriations for the entire department, some functions (like ICE) already have separate funds appropriated. But apparently TSA has no stash of money hiding.
We’re great now, right?
Don’t worry everyone ICE will get things done and back in order…oh shit…
