Federal Air Marshals Removed From Critical Flights Redirected To The Border Leaving A Gapping Hole In Aviation Security

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Federal Air Marshals Removed From Critical Flights Redirected To The Border Leaving A Gapping Hole In Aviation Security

WASHINGTON, DC , USA, November 5, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Air Marshal National Council (AMNC) introduced as we speak that the unions Chief Counsel despatched a letter to TSA Administrator David Pekoske and Federal Air Marshal Director Tirrell Stevenson demanding the company cease illegally deploying Federal Air Marshals to the border and leaving a gaping gap in our aviation safety. Over the previous few months there was a surge in migrants crossing over the border that’s overwhelming federal businesses within the space. However, President Biden has refused to acknowledge the scenario by declaring an emergency.

Earlier this week the AMNC obtained an inside textual content between a number of excessive rating supervisors within the Federal Air Marshal Service. The textual content message introduced an “emergency meeting” the place the scenario on the border was mentioned. The FAM managers famous that “everyone”, which means all Air Marshals will likely be pressured to deploy. AMNC Chief Counsel Cindy O’Keefe notes in her letter of demand.

“President Biden has not determined the illegal immigration surge at the SWB an emergency matter. Therefore, he has not enacted additional police powers of the Transportation Security Administration.”

The letter goes on to notice that beneath clearly established regulation the extremely expert Federal Air Marshals job is to guard excessive threat flights. Removing them from their regular duties to deploy to the border to carry out primarily non-law enforcement duties, is placing our nationwide safety in danger. The Federal Air Marshal service at present has the bottom flight protection for the reason that Sep 11 assaults. The company his experiencing a rare excessive retirement price on account of low morale and most brokers being eligible. Additionally the company has been deploying FAMs to different areas of the nation to deal with the surge of migrants from Afghanistan and the Ukraine. All of this has contributed to the bottom flight coated since Sep 11 and probably a possibility for one more assault.

The Program which was established by President Kennedy within the Sixties solely had 12 lively FAMs on September 11, 1970 the place hijackers tried to grab 4 plane. Three had been efficiently hijacked, one was thwarted by Israeli Air Marshals. Then this system surged till the early Nineteen Eighties. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked and there have been no fulltime air marshals on responsibility. Again there was a surge in this system till September 11, 2001 the place there was solely 33 fulltime air marshals lively. It appears historical past possibly repeating itself with the most recent incompetence on the high of DHS and TSA.

Judicial Watch just lately reported that they had obtained a replica of the pressing directive from numerous recipients on the company, which operates beneath the beleaguered Transportation Security Administration (TSA), created after 9/11 to stop one other terrorist assault. FAM is charged with defending business passenger flights by deterring and countering the danger of terrorist exercise and officers, specifically educated aviation safety specialists, are outraged that they’re being despatched to the southern border.

“The nation is experiencing a surge in irregular migration along the Southwest Border (SWB),” the discover to FAM officers states. “The unprecedented volume of Noncitizen Migrants (NCMs) currently apprehended mandates immediate further action to protect the life and safety of federal personnel and noncitizens in CBP [Customs and Border Protection] custody.” This seems to be the primary acknowledgment, albeit leaked involuntarily, by the Biden administration that there’s certainly a disaster alongside the nation’s famously porous southern border. “To support its mission, CBP is seeking federal employees from DHS Components and other federal agencies to be placed on reimbursable TDY assignments to assist in critical support functions,” the broadly circulated mandate states, including that “LE/FAMS has been directed by DHS to support this request.”

Gem Micheo
Federal Security Council
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