Scott Detrow

We are seeing these long, long lines.

We now have ICE involved at some airports.

My understanding is they're not doing direct passenger screening, and the initial reports are the wait times have not gone down at all.

Do you have a sense of what these ICE agents are doing at airports?

What would you recommend as a solution or a step that an airport can take to kind of minimize this?

We've been talking a lot about the challenge of managing the situation from a staffing point of view.

I'm wondering, given your expertise, given your background, what you would say to travelers right now, somebody who's getting on a plane this weekend and is pretty anxious about it.

That's Keith Jeffries, former federal security director for TSA at LAX.

These days he is the vice president for the K2 Security Screening Group.

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