Exclusive | TSA air marshals too busy targeting Jan. 6, terror suspects to police migrants flying around US without IDs: sources
US air marshals are so distracted tracking Jan.6 suspects and other domestic threats that they are not devoting enough resources to policing the thousands of migrants flying around the country without IDs, sources say.A TSA employee told The Post that Americans “should feel horrible” and “threatened” about the terrifying situation.“None of the people that are coming through the border who are getting flight tickets are getting vetted by hardly any manner,’’ while US citizens are being forced to tightly adhere to airport security’s stringent ID requirements, the source said.Meanwhile, federal air marshals have orders to focus their attention on targets of the Transportation Security Administration’s “Quiet Skies Program,” including suspected terrorists and, in recent years, individuals who took part in the Jan.
6 riots at the US Capitol, sources said.“We’re scrutinizing our own people and letting other countries, other nationalities just come and do whatever they want to in our country.And Air Marshals aren’t getting put on those flights,” the source explained.“I think the risk is them being able to overpower and take control of any flight they want to take control of.”A TSA rep told The Post that migrants who don’t have IDs undergo additional screening and facial recognition technology.But sources poured cold water on that, saying that if migrants don’t have criminal records in the US or international warrants from cooperative countries, security officials are forced to take them at their word.The migrants simply use their border release paperwork as IDs, sources said.The deeply disturbing situation has come under the scrutiny of lawmakers such as Rep.
Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who probed the TSA after hearing Trump-supporting former Rep.Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was said to be surveilled under the initiative.Burchett told The Post that the TSA’s priorities are backwards for targeting “political enemies of this White House�...