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Above, ICE agents at Virginia's Dulles International Airport on Tuesday. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images) | Why are ICE agents at airports while TSA workers remain unpaid? |
“They are literally standing behind the [TSA] officers while they’re checking documents and screening passengers,” said an official of the screeners’ union. |
A GOP proposal would fund all of the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and removal operations. Democrats don’t want any money for ICE without reforms, like requiring ICE agents to take off their masks.
DHS won’t say where exactly the ICE agents were deployed or what exactly their duties are. At a press briefing yesterday, TSA agents represented by the American Federation of Government Employees said they’re not sure why ICE agents have been sent to airports.
“They are literally standing behind the officers while they’re checking documents and screening passengers or walking the queue line that cascades through the airport,” said Aaron Barker, the union’s local president at Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta.
ICE agents wouldn’t even know what to look for if they were running an X-ray machine, according to Johnny Jones, secretary-treasurer of the TSA employees’ union local at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
“There’s only so much that these people can take until there’s a breaking point,” said Sean Root, president of a local with members in California, Arizona, and Nevada. “And I think we’re at that breaking point.
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Let’s do the numbers - Stocks have been trending down since the war in Iran began, but it hasn’t been smooth. Today major indexes bounced again on renewed hope for an end to the fighting (and the lower energy prices that would follow). The S&P 500 closed up 0.5%, the Dow rose 0.7% and the Nasdaq added 0.8%.
Ford is recalling more than a quarter-million SUVs because of a software glitch that could disable rear cameras and other safety features. Check if your car is on the list. Housing
- When homebuying is unaffordable, renters stay put and rents stay high. In dense, pricey San Francisco, a typical one-bedroom apartment went for a record $3,790 this month,
according to Zumper. Rents fell sharply in the Sunbelt states, where there’s a glut of apartment buildings.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY | “They need to understand that their data is being stored in environments, on data media which has finite lives. They are physical, just as we are. They are mechanical. They're going to fail, just as we do.” |
— Linda Tadic, Digital Bedrock founder and CEO | |
Companies, libraries and public radio stations turn to digital archivists like Tadic to ensure their digital files last. The key, Tadic said, is to migrate the data: move it to a new format rather than letting it languish on a forgotten cloud storage account or old disks. |
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Blackregis/Getty Images | Final note |
⚾ 🎶 Buy me some peanuts and streaming packs |
The new MLB season opens tonight, but you’ll need a Netflix subscription to watch the New York Yankees take on the Giants in San Francisco. Sports programming is the closest thing streamers have to a home run, and leagues want maximum exposure. For now, dedicated fans are buying in, piecing together services and paying subscription fees to watch their games. If they can find them.
How’d we get here, and how much will fans tolerate? |
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