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Hannah Rosen

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Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

Good to be with you.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

Okay, let's start with airport hell.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

As we know, there's a shortage of TSA agents, and then this idea comes seemingly out of nowhere to deploy ICE at airports to help alleviate these security lines.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

What did you think when you first heard this idea?

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

Right.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

OK, so I want to split the darker and lighter interpretations because I'm sure even at the airport, there are some people who are freaked out by the presence of ICE and other people who are happy and going over and shaking their hands.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

So to start with the freaked out, we did see and then this polarization shows up in social media.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

So in the first days was this video of a woman at the San Francisco airport being pinned down by ICE agents while her daughter looked on.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

And then later reports that TSA had shared information about this woman with ICE.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

So which brings up the specter of, oh, are airports going to become like Minneapolis streets or something?

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

Like you're not safe anywhere.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

ICE could just pop up at any place where all Americans do their business.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

So what do you think of that?

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

OK, so the if there's anything to fear there in the long term, it's the increased data sharing between government agencies.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

It's not this temporary story about ICE agents at airports.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

Right.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

OK, so everything you're suggesting, what I'm picking up is that this is kind of a PR campaign, a new part of a PR campaign.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

And I want to get to that in a minute.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

But first, I want to close this off, which is this is just because of a temporary partial government shutdown.

Radio Atlantic
The Department of Homeland Security Theater

You know, Congress is currently negotiating.