Garrison America

As of Monday, March 23, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been deployed to fourteen major US airports ostensibly to assist with crowd control and support TSA checkpoints during staffing shortages.  We've been told that agents are primarily assisting with, rather than operating, security, and the list of locations may change.

So far, every photo or newscast I've seen shows these guys standing or walking around in improvised and mismatched non-standard fatigues, ballistic vests, sidearms and automatic weapons; sometimes wearing ICE or POLICE patches.  They're unmasked and none of them are outfitted with a name tag or visible ID.  

Compared to the law in my community - by all outward appearances - they're unprofessional and poorly groomed.  Sloppy bordering on slovenly.  Up-armed mall cops.

We're paying these guys a premium wage to chill-out and stand around at the airport while the TSA agents continue to do all the work and go unpaid. 

Meanwhile, it is a proven fact that the long lines and wait times remain unchanged.

Check-out the photo above.  A few of you will cheer it; while most will shake their heads.

Welcome to the militarization of America.  Unkempt and unprofessional too.

I'm an old man and never thought I would live long enough to witness the normalization of this nonsense during peacetime.  

Ponder that.  

Peacetime. 

Any wagers this is a dress rehearsal so you will be less alarmed when you go to vote?

I pray this isn't a condition I have to get used to....