Dana El-Kurd

Money smuggling.

Yeah, they're just going to steal cash off of people at the airport.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, TSA has done that for a while, off and on, so this isn't entirely new, but they're just going to take money from people.

By Tuesday evening, lines at ATL, the airport in Atlanta, the most busy airport in the world, has the most amount of travel to and from.

By Tuesday evening, lines were back down.

But by Wednesday morning, a friend of mine took three hours to get through TSA.

God.

So what exactly is ICE doing?

Mostly standing behind TSA at security checkpoints, standing behind people still doing the regular TSA work.

occasionally directing pedestrian traffic and maybe at most yelling at people to empty their pockets.

Hey, they're keeping the cookie clicker economy going.

The mobile app economy is benefiting enormously from all these people standing around their phones.

ICE agents cannot actually do the job of TSA since they do not have the training nor the certification required to do so.

Nope.

So ICE is largely just acting as auxiliary staff and security for the airport.

But regular airport staff aren't suffering from the financial strain of the shutdown because they're still getting paid.

Aaron Barker, the president of the TSA Union Local 554, which covers airports in Georgia like ATL, denied that ICE contributed to short lines on Tuesday compared to the weekend, noting that Tuesday is a non-peak travel day.

Yeah, of course.

It's Tuesday.