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Things Are Getting So Desperate At The Border, They’re Deploying The TSA

Emily Zanotti

The Department of Homeland Security is “retasking” hundreds of Transportation Security Administration employees to the United States-Mexico border to assist with the frontline immigration process in an effort to relieve some of the pressure on United States Customs and Border Patrol, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

CNN reports that 175 of the TSA’s “law enforcement officials” and up to 400 of its “security ops” personnel, including a number of air marshals, are being sent to the southern border “to help with efforts to deal with migrant inflows.”

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