A new bill that would protect Americans&#8217; ability to opt out of biometric security checks at the airport is being challenged by the airline industry, which claims that it would slow down travel and jeopardize security.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1691/text">bill</a>, the Traveler Privacy Protection Act of 2025, would limit the ability of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to store and use the biometric data of Americans going through the airport. Lawmakers say the bill is necessary to protect privacy and standardize how biometric data is used by the federal government.
The bipartisan proposal, first introduced by Democrat Senator Jeff Merkley (OR), is backed by Republican Senators Roger Marshall (KS), John Kennedy (LA), and Steve Daines (MT). The bill is set to be heard before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Wednesday morning.
“Privacy is one of America’s most sacred liberties, and we must protect it,” Marshall said when the bill was introduced in May. “In no universe should the federal government collect biometric data from Americans without their full, informed consent. The Traveler Privacy Protection Act strengthens safeguards around this sensitive data and brings transparency for travelers.”
The legislation would require TSA to give travelers the option to have their identity verified without facial recognition technology, standardize practices toward those who opt out, and ensure that those who opt in do not have their data stored indefinitely.
On Monday, a coalition of groups including the U.S. Travel Association, Airlines for America, the American Association of Airport Executives, and the Airports Council International-North America, sent a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/2025.07.28_S.1691-Letter-to-CST_FINAL.pdf">letter</a> to the Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and ranking member Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) in opposition to the bill.
“Limiting the use of FRT thwarts ongoing efforts to modernize the travel experience as we prepare to welcome the world for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, America’s 250th birthday, and the 2028 Summer Olympics, and jeopardizes the Trump Administration’s recent success in modernizing airport screening with the implementation of One Stop Security, the enforcement of REAL ID, and the end of the ‘shoes off’ policy,” the groups wrote in a letter obtained by The Daily Wire.
The letter also argued that the legislation would bog down security processing and “weaken aviation security and immigration enforcement across the country.”
Over the last few weeks, the committee has been working to address concerns from both the TSA and the airline industry with the bill, and will introduce an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to deal with some of those concerns. The committee incorporated around 80% of the TSA’s technical assistance requests for the legislation, according to a source familiar with the matter.
That amendment bill has not yet been publicly released, though it was referenced in the airline industry&#8217;s letter leading to congressional concern that TSA is sharing drafts of legislation with the airline industry and using them to lobby against legislation.
“Now that senators are prepared to safeguard Americans’ privacy, TSA is getting their industry friends to carry water,” a senior GOP congressional aide told POLITICO.
The TSA did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.
While passengers are currently allowed to opt out of facial recognition, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1691/text">draft</a> of the bill would guarantee that all passengers are given “the option to opt-in to the use of facial recognition or facial matching technology for identity verification at the screening location” and ensure that they will not be treated differently based on their choice.
The legislation would also ensure that data collected for testing purposes would be deleted within 90 days of collection.

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The Trump administration is moving to end the requirement that passengers remove their shoes when going through airport security, according to multiple reports.
The much-hated shoe removal mandate, which has been in place since 2006, is being gradually phased out in the coming weeks, according to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents who have told multiple news outlets. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the news on Tuesday morning. 
The phase-out began at Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Fort Lauderdale International Airport, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Portland International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport, and Piedmont Triad International Airport in North Carolina, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-shoes-rule-expires/">reported</a>. 
On Tuesday morning, Leavitt posted, “Big news from [the Department of Homeland Security]!” in response to an X news post on the policy change. 
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“TSA and DHS are always exploring new and innovative ways to enhance the passenger experience and our strong security posture,” a TSA spokesman <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/travel/tsa-shoes-removal-airport-security.html">told</a> the New York Times on Monday. “Any potential updates to our security process will be issued through official channels.”
The news was first <a href="https://gateaccess.substack.com/p/exclusive-tsa-to-end-shoe-removal">reported</a> by Gate Access on July 4, which stated that the TSA had begun circulating the updated shoe guidance. Before the change, visitors enrolled in the TSA PreCheck program were permitted to keep their shoes, belts, and jackets on and were not required to remove laptops or liquids from their bags. 
Some conservative commentators praised the move from the Trump administration.
&#8220;Rejoice, you no longer have to take your shoes off to go through TSA airport security. Always a moronic rule that didn’t seem likely to make any of us safer. But this removal is likely to make airport security lines run way smoother,&#8221;  Outkick founder Clay Travis said.
In December 2001, a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, airline passenger Richard Reid attempted to ignite explosive devices hidden in his shoes while on a flight from Paris to Miami. Still considered a threat years later, the shoe removal policy was first <a href="https://www.tsa.gov/timeline">instituted</a> in 2006 as a way to screen airline passengers for explosives. 
Reid, known as the shoe bomber, had homemade bombs containing 10 ounces of explosive materials hidden in his shoes that the FBI <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/history/artifacts/richard-reids-shoes">said</a> would have blown a hole in the plane’s fuselage if detonated successfully. After pleading guilty to eight terrorism-related charges, Reid was sentenced to life in prison.

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The Trump administration ended an airport surveillance program on Thursday that it said had been “weaponized” by the Biden administration. 
The Department of Homeland Security said that it was closing down the Quiet Skies program because it had been used for political purposes and had not stopped any terrorist attacks. The Quiet Skies <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pia-tsa-spqs018i-april2019_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program</a> was an initiative run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that flagged fliers deemed by intelligence officials to “pose an elevated security risk” for “enhanced screening” and potential observation by federal Air Marshals. 
“It is clear that the Quiet Skies program was used as a political rolodex of the Biden Administration — weaponized against its political foes and exploited to benefit their well-heeled friends. I am calling for a Congressional investigation to unearth further corruption at the expense of the American people and the undermining of US national security,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. 
 “TSA&#8217;s critical aviation and security vetting functions will be maintained, and the Trump Administration will return TSA to its true mission of being laser-focused on the safety and security of the traveling public. This includes restoring the integrity, privacy, and equal application of the law for all Americans,” she added. 
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The program costs $200 million per year and has stopped zero terrorist attacks since its inception in 2010, according to Homeland Security. 
Noem said that enhanced Quiet Skies screening was wrongly placed on Biden administration critic Tulsi Gabbard, who is now the Director of National Intelligence, while she was campaigning for President Donald Trump. She added that preferential treatment was given to the husband of a Democratic senator. 
On Wednesday, Homeland Security claimed that William Shaheen, the husband of New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, was given a blanket exemption from Quiet Skies after he was flagged for traveling “with a Known or Suspected Terrorist on three occasions.” The exception was granted after Senator Shaheen lobbied the federal government for her husband&#8217;s removal from the Quiet Skies list, according to the department. 
Shaheen has disputed those claims, saying that she was unaware that her husband was ever flagged as a security risk by the Quiet Skies program. 
&#8220;Senator Shaheen contacted the Transportation Security Administration after her husband was subjected to several extensive, invasive and degrading searches at airport checkpoints,&#8221; her office said. &#8220;Senator Shaheen sought to understand the nature and cause of these searches. Any suggestion that the senator&#8217;s husband was supposedly included on a Quiet Skies list is news to her and had never been raised before yesterday, nor was she aware of any action taken following her call to remove him from such a list.&#8221;
Noem called for Congress to open up an investigation into Quiet Skies in addition to her department’s internal probe.

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There&#8217;s been a lot of very negative coverage of diversity, equity and inclusion lately. Some of you may know that, as I&#8217;ve mentioned once or twice, I recently put together a movie on the topic: “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/am-i-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Am I Racist?</a>” Streaming on Daily Wire right now. I’ve also done a lot of shows about DEI and for good reason. In fact, a DEI candidate is on the ballot for president of the United States. We are on the cusp of either doubling down on this disastrous ideology, or possibly eradicating it entirely.
All that being said, I&#8217;d be lying if I said that, deep down, I don&#8217;t have a soft spot for certain DEI policies that the Biden-Harris administration has implemented. You see, as a certified DEI expert myself, I&#8217;m trained to recognize that not all DEI programs are equal. Some of them are just straight-up racist, sure. Virtually all of them are counterproductive. But I&#8217;m capable of identifying, based on my extensive training, some DEI policies that are really diamonds in the rough. Some of them transcend politics and stand as monuments to the unfettered ingenuity of the Biden-Harris administration. The more you think about these policies, the more you come around to the idea that maybe, just maybe, DEI is worth keeping around in some form — if only because, in many cases, these policies are hilarious. Or at least, mildly amusing.
In that spirit — and because we could all use a breather going into what may be the most heated and contested presidential election since the Civil War — I&#8217;m going to rank my favorite DEI policies from the Biden-Harris administration. The group &#8220;Do No Harm&#8221; assembled a gigantic database of all the zillions of ways the administration has implemented DEI, and I&#8217;ve whittled that database down to my personal top 10 list. I&#8217;m posting that list on X, but for the purposes of this article I&#8217;ll whittle that list down even further.
We&#8217;ll start with this one, which is probably the best. With very little fanfare, under the administration&#8217;s &#8220;equity&#8221; mandate, The TSA deployed new &#8220;advanced imaging technology&#8221; to, &#8220;reduce the instances of enhanced screening for trans persons.&#8221; According to the TSA, &#8220;this update eliminated the need for TSA officers to determine a passenger&#8217;s gender prior to Advanced Imaging screening.&#8221; This is a program that taxpayers spent millions of dollars to implement. But how does it work exactly? How, precisely, is imaging technology resulting in less false flags for self-identified &#8220;trans people&#8221;?
Here&#8217;s one news report I found on this topic. We&#8217;ll see if they can shed some light on the situation:
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So before the DEI update over at TSA, the body scanner required that agents select a gender for the traveler. This is one of those things that I guess they didn&#8217;t want to elaborate on during a local news broadcast, but it&#8217;s pretty clear what&#8217;s going on here. If the machine detects that a woman has a strange object in a region of the body where a woman shouldn&#8217;t have any object at all, then the machine would sound an alarm, and the TSA agent would have to do a pat-down. But if the machine detects that object on a man&#8217;s body, it&#8217;s a little less suspicious.
Anyone with a child&#8217;s understanding of biology can figure out that this makes a lot of sense. It&#8217;s not exactly a foolproof system, but it does make it a little harder for women to smuggle contraband through a body scanner.
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But the TSA, under the Biden-Harris administration, has made the technology more &#8220;accurate,&#8221; supposedly. How did that do that? According to the TSA, last summer they introduced a &#8220;gender-neutral algorithm&#8221; to the body scanners. In other words, presumably they&#8217;ve stopped looking for mismatches between someone&#8217;s gender and any objects that may be attached to their bodies in strange places. As a result, they say that the number of &#8220;false positives&#8221; has gone down by 50%.
The TSA brags about that statistic on their website quite a bit — even though it doesn&#8217;t really tell us anything at all. You can reduce the number of &#8220;false positives&#8221; by 100% if you just unplug the body scanner and stop using it entirely. The more useful statistic — if we&#8217;re being frank here — would be knowing whether anyone was able to sneak a weapon through the body scanner because the machine thought it was male genitalia instead of, say, a gun or a knife. But the TSA doesn&#8217;t have those statistics because, of course, there&#8217;s no way to track objects that they missed completely. We&#8217;ll just have to find out the hard way, I guess. Hopefully ISIS doesn&#8217;t employ any gender-neutral terrorists.
That brings me to another monumental DEI achievement under the Biden-Harris administration. This one comes to us from the Department of Energy, which recently became notorious for employing its own gender-neutral menace. You might have heard that the Department of Energy&#8217;s esteemed nuclear waste disposal expert, Sam Brinton, turned out to be an expert in stealing women&#8217;s luggage from airport baggage claims. That whole episode led to a lot of bad press, which is too bad because it distracted everyone from the Department of Energy&#8217;s historic achievement in the field of DEI. Fortunately, as a certified DEI professional, I&#8217;m here to rectify that oversight.
This is a very real paragraph from the &#8220;Equity Action Plan&#8221; at the Department of Energy. I hope you&#8217;re sitting down <a href="https://www.energy.gov/justice/articles/doe-equity-action-plan-and-2023-update-2022-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for this</a>: 
<blockquote>In Fiscal Year 2023, DOE sponsored &#8230; the Lesbians Who Tech conference. &#8230; DOE also work[ed] in close partnership with its Energy PRIDE Employee Resource Group for Pride Month, including raising the Progress Pride Flag for the third year in a row with the Energy Secretary.</blockquote>
I&#8217;ll read that last part again. The Department of Energy raised the Progress Pride Flag three years in a row, with the Energy Secretary in attendance. They didn&#8217;t just raise the flag for one year. They didn&#8217;t just raise the flag for two years. They did it three whole years. In a row.
This is something that a bureaucrat — paid by your tax dollars — wrote down in a government document as a major achievement for equity. And then they published this document online, to brag to the whole world. Just to make sure I wasn&#8217;t missing anything, I pulled up a video of what this Progress Pride &#8220;flag raising&#8221; ceremony looked like. Here&#8217;s some of that riveting footage:
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It&#8217;s just monumental stuff. So first of all, the Department of Energy lady says that &#8220;PRIDE&#8221; stands for &#8220;promoting respect, inclusion, diversity and equity.&#8221; That&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve ever heard that, but she just says it as fact.
So I looked it up. It turns out that this is a disputed acronym. Most people say that PRIDE is not an acronym at all. It just means &#8220;pride,&#8221; as in, one of the seven deadly sins. But for their part, the University of San Francisco&#8217;s LGBTQ center <a href="https://lgbtq.ucsf.edu/pride-values#:~:text=Originally%20adopted%20by%20UCSF%20Medical,%2C%20Integrity%2C%20Diversity%20and%20Excellence." target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that PRIDE stands for &#8220;professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence.&#8221; So there are some differences there. Three of the five words are different. And of course when you think of gay pride parades with men walking around in leather bondage gear in front of children, the first word that comes to mind to describe the scene is: professionalism. Also respect and integrity. 
There&#8217;s also the folks over at Robins Air Force Base, who have weighed in on this topic, albeit in a very different context. They <a href="https://www.robins.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/2067288/pride-revealed-a-commanders-commentary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> on their website that PRIDE really stands for &#8220;People, Readiness, Innovation, Drive, and Excellence.&#8221;
So already, this is all very confusing. And then it gets more confusing when the Department of Energy lady says this: &#8220;Pride is for everyone, whether you are a member of the community or an ally.&#8221; In other words, Pride is for everyone, except all of the people who think Pride is dumb, evil, divisive, and a complete waste of taxpayer money. So Pride isn&#8217;t really for everyone at all, I guess. But she&#8217;ll say that anyway, because it sounds nice.
Speaking of pride, NASA was particularly proud under the Biden-Harris administration to launch something called &#8220;Mission Equity.&#8221; No, &#8220;Mission Equity&#8221; doesn&#8217;t refer to a trip to Mars, or catching a rocket booster mid-air so that they can reuse it later. You&#8217;re thinking too small. After all, who needs reusable rocket boosters when you have NASA&#8217;s &#8220;LGBTQI+ Gender Equity Forum,&#8221; which connects nonbinary, trans and queer folx with government procurement experts? I mean, if you give any sane person the choice between those two achievements, they&#8217;re obviously going to go with the gender equity forum.
But that&#8217;s not even my favorite part of what NASA accomplished in the DEI department over the last four years. They also put together what, in my humble opinion as a DEI expert, is maybe the single creepiest DEI town hall that&#8217;s ever been put together by a government agency. One after another, the entire agency — including the director — delivered some mindless lines about Joe Biden&#8217;s executive order on equity, and how important it is. And then they announced the launch of Mission Equity. Watch:
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This would be a creepy and depressing town hall if it was, say, the local teachers&#8217; union doing it. But this is NASA we&#8217;re talking about here, which makes it even harder to watch. NASA used to do great things, like land a man on the moon. And they did all of those great things without DEI. And now they&#8217;re all pretending that DEI was somehow the key to their success all along. Meanwhile, as NASA holds meetings like this — where they all act like lobotomized DEI activists — SpaceX is actually accomplishing things.
There are a bunch of other examples of this rot that Do No Harm has collected. The Forest Service spent $1 billion on “environmental justice,&#8221; which is a term that no one can define. The N.E.A. spent more than $6 million to make the art world more “equitable&#8221; because, as we all know, the art world is a haven for those dreaded MAGA Republicans. The Department of Commerce allocated $70 million exclusively for “women-owned small businesses,” which is why a lot of men now list their wives as the “owner” of their company. That&#8217;s a really big improvement, I guess. We&#8217;ve incentivized fraud at a massive scale.
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Meanwhile, over at the CIA, they took a break from overthrowing foreign governments so that they could sponsor robotics camps for &#8220;middle school students from underserved communities.&#8221; And the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates commercial vehicles, held the first-ever meeting of the &#8220;Women of Trucking Advisory Board.&#8221; That makes sense, because if there&#8217;s one thing we desperately need as a country, it&#8217;s more women spending weeks away from their families while they drive 30-ton trucks all over the country.
Of course, cataloging all of the DEI programs that the Biden-Harris administration has implemented is nearly impossible. There&#8217;s just too many of them. But having looked at the database from &#8220;Do No Harm,&#8221; those are some of my favorites. They&#8217;re the DEI &#8220;achievements&#8221; that reveal how backwards and incompetent our government has become over the past four years. And if nothing else, they&#8217;re one last incentive to vote if you haven&#8217;t already.
All of this is reversible. We just have to fire the people who implemented these policies on Tuesday. And then, after we&#8217;re done laughing at these imbeciles, we can tell the next crop of government employees to get back to work.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> will soon install body scanners at several busy subway stations meant to check for people carrying guns.
Mayor Eric Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/233-24/mayor-adams-nypd-commissioner-caban-pilot-new-technology-additional-clinicians-be#/0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a pilot program for the scanners at a news conference on Thursday at the Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan.
“This is our Sputnik moment,” Adams <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-to-test-scanners-with-ai-tech-to-crack-down-on-guns-in-nyc-subway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon. &#8230; Let’s bring on the scanners.”
The event included a demonstration of how the scanners work. The scanners appeared to flag a man carrying a loaded gun, but not a man with a backpack full of electronics.
However, subway riders will not be required to pass through the machines.
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NEW: The NYPD is gearing up to pilot metal detectors with artificial intelligence in the subways to keep guns out.
“This is our Sputnik moment. Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon,” Mayor Adams said just now. <a href="https://t.co/bZ7K5xtgE8">pic.twitter.com/bZ7K5xtgE8</a>
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Body scanners coming to the ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/NYCTSubway?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCTSubway</a>⁩ system. Details to come. <a href="https://t.co/hNUhHNdX18">pic.twitter.com/hNUhHNdX18</a>
&mdash; Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) <a href="https://twitter.com/chayesmatthew/status/1773371661804286160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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A demonstration of the body scanners that are coming — in as soon as 90 days — to the New York City subways. <a href="https://t.co/B9zdjjGpqZ">pic.twitter.com/B9zdjjGpqZ</a>
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The new scanners will not be implemented for several months, however.
During a legally mandated 90-day waiting period, the NYPD will look for vendors of weapons detection technology. The public will be able to comment on the scanner program for the first 45 days of the waiting period.
The city has not said which subway stations will get scanners as part of the pilot program. Police are expected to monitor the machines to see if the program should be expanded.
&#8220;We are taking the next step forward in our ongoing efforts to make our subways even safer and ensure New Yorkers feel safer in the transit system,&#8221; Adams said Thursday.
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The new scanners come amid a sharp increase in gun violence in the subway. Four subway killings have happened so far this year, just under the five that occurred over all of last year.
The NYPD says cops have seized 19 illegal guns in the subway so far this year, up from nine by this point last year.
Transit crime overall is up 4.4% so far this year compared to last year, <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " href="https://compstat.nypdonline.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-testid="prism-linkbase">according</a> to NYPD data.
Earlier this month, Governor Kathy Hochul (D) deployed 750 National Guard soldiers into he subway system to check riders&#8217; bags. Last month, the NYPD started sending another 1,000 officers into the subway system each day.
Nevertheless, the city&#8217;s announcement of new body scanners was met with criticism online.
&#8220;TSA-ifying the subway is not going to fix anything,&#8221; one X user <a href="https://twitter.com/kristenmag/status/1773409450826826116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;Who will man this? A police officer? And how about when it does beep will there be enough police there to tackle the person if they get out of control? Yeah it’s all well and good to hear the beeping but then what do you do after?&#8221; another user <a href="https://twitter.com/miriam_riviera/status/1773407712015008248" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.

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A photo taken from Miami International Airport showed a notice from the Transportation Security Administration indicating that migrants entering the U.S. at the airport did not have to supply a photo or have their photo taken in order to enter the country.
Political commentator Dave Rubin snapped the photo, tweeting, “This is the state of absolute insanity happening at our airports. I’m in the Pre-TSA line, where migrants don’t have to have an ID to get through security and it’s their choice whether they want their picture taken. There is a plan to destroy America.”
The sign read, “U.S. airport Non-U.S. Citizen Document Validation Using CBP One Technology.” CBP One is a mobile application <a href="https://immigrationforum.org/article/cbp-one-fact-sheet-and-resources-directory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched in October 2020</a> to help immigrants preschedule appointments at ports of entry.  <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}"> 
The sign continued as follows:
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TSA is partnering with CBP to test the use of CBP One at certain TSA checkpoints to validate adult non-U.S. citizen travel documentation when the traveler does not otherwise have an acceptable form of identification.
How it works: 1. Notify the TSA officer that you are a migrant. 2. The TSA officer will take a photo (optional). 3. If requested, provide your alien identification number or biographic information. 4. Follow officer instruction.
Photo capture is voluntary.  You may decline to have your photo taken. If you do not wish to have your phot taken, please notify a TSA Officer. You must still provide your alien identification number or biographical information to the TSA Officer, even if you do not have your phot taken.
CBP One only verifies the information you previously provided to CBP and will not store your information. Because your information is verified through CBP One, TSA will also not store your information as part of this process.
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Just snapped this pic. 
This is the state of absolute insanity happening at our airports. I’m in the Pre-TSA line, where migrants don’t have to have an ID to get through security and it’s their choice whether they want their picture taken. 
There is a plan to destroy America. <a href="https://t.co/VQubxLgY9E">pic.twitter.com/VQubxLgY9E</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1747964082219536611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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I should mention this was Miami International Airport. 
cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@marcorubio</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRickScott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenRickScott</a> <a href="https://t.co/GMXdqm1ENm">https://t.co/GMXdqm1ENm</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1747976166206529611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobile-apps-directory/cbpone">noted</a> last year, “On February 23rd, CBP One™ released an update to streamline the photo capture and scheduling process. This includes requiring individuals to submit their information prior to and separate from scheduling an appointment. Updates were made to enhance the geolocation service required to schedule an appointment. Starting April 29, 2023, the CBP One™ application will remove the vulnerability requirement in preparation for the end of Title 42. Starting May 10, 2023, the CBP One™ application will allow for additional time to complete the appointment request process.”

New 3-D Explosives Scanner Installed At TSA Checkpoint At Miami Airport

‘There Is A Plan To Destroy America’: TSA Sign Says Migrants Without ID Can Choose Not To Have Photo Taken When Entering U.S.

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The Biden administration&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security has had federal air marshals following people for years who flew to Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, even if they did not go to the Capitol and were never charged with a crime, according to an association representing air marshals.
Air marshals were allegedly pulled off of sensitive missions to follow potential conservatives, suggesting that not only was a law enforcement agency politicized, but that people with no involvement in politics might have been placed at risk as a result. The finding comes amidst the revelation that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-dropped-probe-of-pedophile-to-focus-on-january-6-now-hes-accused-of-abusing-10-year-old-boy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI let an apparent child rapist go free</a> to pursue January 6 cases.
Five days after the January 6, 2021, protest at the Capitol, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and then-Rep. John Katko (R-NY) wrote to the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), David Pekoske, to demand that the agency “disrupt the travel of terrorists who just attacked the seat of the U.S. government,” citing “online chatter” as evidence that they might be al-Qaeda-style bombers.
Soon, TSA appeared to be doing just that — a situation discovered only because of an almost comical situation in which one air marshal was forced to monitor another air marshal because his wife was in D.C. during that time period.
In January 2023, David Londo and Sonya LaBosco, the president and executive director of the Air Marshal National Council, an association that represents air marshals, wrote to House leaders saying that innocent Americans were being put on watchlists.
“We have recently become aware that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) are improperly classifying innocent Americans as ‘Domestic Terrorists’ on internal TSA/FAMS databases and watchlists,&#8221; the pair wrote. &#8220;Most of these classifications occur in the absence of any investigation or even any follow up.”
They said that in one case, because the wife of an air marshal was in D.C. on January 6 — but never went to the Capitol — FAMS began following her on flights. Since she was usually traveling with her husband, that meant one air marshal was assigned to fly on a plane to monitor another air marshal. “You can imagine the scene” when the husband had to introduce himself to the air marshal who was following him to explain, as required, that he was carrying his weapon onboard, the letter said.
In one such flight, the assigned air marshal told the husband that he was “originally scheduled for a high-risk international mission,” but that mission went uncovered because he was monitoring the wife of a colleague, the letter said.
The husband was able to see in TSA’s computer system that his wife was classified as a “Domestic Terrorist,” and she remained so two years later, even though she has never been arrested or even questioned about the Capitol protest, which she did not participate in, the letter said.
The wife “is not alone. We have been hearing many similar stories from our FAM membership about being assigned to surveil people that TSA/FAMS labeled domestic terrorists, specifically due to being in D.C. on or about January 6th,” it continued.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fbi-dropped-probe-of-pedophile-to-focus-on-january-6-now-hes-accused-of-abusing-10-year-old-boy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The FBI Halted Probe Of Pedophile To Focus On January 6. Now He’s Accused Of Abusing A 10-Year-Old Boy.</a>
One January 6 defendant, Kirstyn Niemela — a 5’6” lesbian who was charged with only misdemeanors – said at sentencing that “I have also been red flagged at the airport, and I have to go through extra security while other passengers stare at me as if I&#8217;m a terrorist. I have had other passengers come up to me — which I have videos of all of this – and tell me that undercover police or air marshals were watching and <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.242718/gov.uscourts.dcd.242718.149.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">following me</a>, and they even peeked inside the ladies&#8217; room while I was in there. This is extremely humiliating, totally unnecessary.”
The Air Marshal National Council said that TSA had repurposed a domestic surveillance program called <a href="https://apps.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/graphics/2018/07/tsa-quiet-skies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Quiet Skies”</a> to follow people who may have been even weakly linked to January 6. The program, which FAMS initially kept secret not only from the public but even from other government agencies, allows air marshals to flag and follow people who are &#8220;<a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4620695/Doc-Bulletin-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unknown or partially known</a> terrorists&#8221; who are “not under investigation by any agency and are not in the Terrorist Screening Data base.” The DHS Inspector General found in 2020 that it has <a href="https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-11/OIG-21-11-Nov20-Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never found a single threat</a> to aviation security.
In its letter to the TSA, it said FAMS Director Tirrell Stevenson has “gone all in” on Quiet Skies, which allows it to follow people who are purportedly linked to January 6 even if there is no real reason to think they would blow up a plane.
The Council said the nation could be at risk of actual terrorism because not only are FAMS following January 6 people, but hundreds were deployed to the southern border to assist illegal immigrants rather than enforcing the law in the air.
In October, the Council wrote to Pekoske saying that “on a daily basis there will be more FAMs performing humanitarian duties on the border than will be protecting Americans in the sky.”
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Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, wrote in June 2023 that “The deployments were previously halted in January of 2023 due to an ongoing DHS Office of Inspector General investigation to determine whether the deployments were legal,” since tending to migrants is not in their job description. “Despite that, the Biden Administration has resumed the practice due the Administration’s inability to control our southwest border,” he wrote.
LaBosco told The Daily Wire that there have been major security incidents on flights—such as a passenger holding a razor-blade to another passenger’s neck — on which there were no air marshal on board “as we were on the border or following J6 people. “
TSA did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire. In response to a probe by the House Judiciary Committee, the agency acknowledged deploying federal air marshals as a result of January 6, but said little else.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas before the Senate HSGAC October 31, 2023

Federal Air Marshals Diverted From Sensitive Flights To Follow January 6 Suspects, Officials Say

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tsa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transportation Security Administration</a> is testing the use of facial <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognition</a> technology at <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/air-travel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">airports</a> across the nation, a move that the federal agency claims will help employees more easily <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/surveillance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identify</a> travelers.
Passengers may soon find themselves in a security screening line where they are asked to place their identification into a slot and look into a camera, after which a small screen will take their picture and flash the words “photo complete,” permitting the traveler to continue through the security process without handing their identification to an employee.
The technology is currently in use at 16 airports throughout the country, such as those in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City, according to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/facial-recognition-airport-screening-tsa-d8b6397c02afe16602c8d34409d1451f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press. Passengers are allowed to opt out of the pilot program conducted by the TSA, which is a branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
TSA employees in the security lines with the technology, which examines whether the identification is real and whether the identification belongs to the traveler, will nevertheless be present to ensure that the system reaches correct conclusions.
The test of the technology comes despite a February <a href="https://www.merkley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/tsa_facial_recognition_technology_letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> from five members of the Senate, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), who expressed concern over reports that the system could be implemented across the United States as soon as this year if deemed successful. The lawmakers contended that facial recognition technology “represents a risk to civil liberties and privacy rights.”
“We are concerned about the safety and security of Americans’ biometric data in the hands of authorized private corporations or unauthorized bad actors,” the letter continued. “As government agencies grow their database of identifying images, increasingly large databases will prove more and more enticing targets for hackers and cybercriminals.”
Federal entities already leverage facial recognition technology in various capacities despite the privacy and security concerns: a <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-106100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published last year by the Government Accountability Office found that 18 out of 24 agencies reported using facial recognition systems in fiscal year 2020, largely for computer access and law enforcement activities, while 14 out of 42 agencies that employ law enforcement officers reported using the technology in criminal investigations.
Americans broadly support the “widespread use of facial recognition technology” by police officers who utilize the systems for law enforcement purposes, according to a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/03/17/public-more-likely-to-see-facial-recognition-use-by-police-as-good-rather-than-bad-for-society/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from Pew Research Center, in which 27% of respondents said the policy was a “bad idea” and 46% said the policy was a “good idea.”
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), who also endorsed the letter, previously criticized Amazon smart doorbell company Ring after the firm <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-handed-over-ring-doorbell-footage-to-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provided</a> law enforcement with videos from user devices in emergency scenarios after making a “good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury” involved in the situation. The lawmaker said that the policy justifies passage of his Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, which would prohibit state and federal entities from accessing Americans’ sensitive data.
Other state and local governments have indeed banned biometric recognition technology. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit last year against Google and Meta for breaches of state laws which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-takes-google-to-court-for-allegedly-harvesting-biometric-data-without-consent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibit</a> technology firms from using data such as iris scans, fingerprints, voiceprints, or records of hand and face geometry for commercial purposes without permission.

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TSA Rolls Out Facial Recognition Technology Test At Several Major Airports

TSA Rolls Out Facial Recognition Test At Multiple Airports

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Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Sebastian Joseph-Day accused the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of sexually assaulting him late last week at an airport in California.
Joseph-Day said that the incident happened on Friday at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
“I really just got sexually assaulted by TSA at @JohnWayneAir,” he tweeted. “After I asked the gentleman to please stop [because] I’m uncomfortable and I feel that this part of the check is unnecessary (After he felt what was needed). Then they told me I was the problem after 3 TSA agents swarmed me.”
“I’m all for people doing their job well. But it was extremely unnecessary and dehumanizing,” he said. “I travel a lot, for personal and work reasons. I’ve never experienced anything like that @JohnWayneAir.”
Joseph-Day said that the TSA made it difficult for him to report the incident. 
“And when I do try to file a complaint they are making me jump through hoops to do so,” he said. “I’m not sharing this on Twitter for sympathy. I’m sharing this so this group of gentleman and staff aren’t allowed to do this ever again to another human being.”
Officials said in a statement that they were aware of the incident and were looking into it. 
”TSA is aware of allegations made by a traveler who was screened by TSA officers at John Wayne Orange County Airport Friday morning,&#8221; TSA <a href="https://localtoday.news/ca/la-chargers-defensive-tackle-sebastian-joseph-day-accuses-tsa-agents-of-sexual-assault-295669.html">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;We are looking into the matter to determine if our procedures were followed and whether any corrective action needs to be taken.
&#8220;TSA remains committed to treating every traveler with dignity and respect while carrying out its security screening responsibilities,” the statement added.

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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers said Friday the agency intercepted a record number of firearms at airport security checkpoints this year, a nearly 10% increase over 2021’s record level.
Officials reported the agency stopped 6,301 firearms from crossing through secure areas of airports since the beginning of 2022 and anticipates detaining approximately 300 more before the new year. Of those firearms, more than 88% were loaded, the agency said.
The number of firearm interceptions surpassed the previous record of 5,972 firearms detected in 2021.
“I applaud the work of our Transportation Security Officers who do an excellent job of preventing firearms from getting into the secure area of airports, and onboard aircraft,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a<a href="https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2022/12/16/tsa-breaks-record-number-firearms-security-checkpoints-announces-new#:~:text=As%20of%20December%2016%2C%20TSA,5%2C972%20firearms%20detected%20in%202021"> news release.</a> “Firearms are prohibited in carry-on bags at the checkpoint and onboard aircraft.”
Although firearm possession laws vary by state and local government, passengers are prohibited from carrying guns in carry-on bags at any TSA security checkpoint, even if a passenger has a concealed weapon permit. However, the agency <a href="https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition">says</a> passengers may travel with a firearm — but it must be unloaded and locked in a hard-sided container and transported as checked baggage only and declared each time they present it for transport as checked baggage.
The agency said that TSA had increased the maximum civil penalty for a firearms violation to $14,950 to reduce the threat of firearms at checkpoints.
“When a passenger brings a firearm to the checkpoint, this consumes significant security resources and poses a potential threat to transportation security, in addition to being very costly for the passenger,” Pekoske said.
According to the agency, TSA firearm catches have increased since 2010, rising from just 1,123. However, the number of interceptions dipped in 2020 by more than 1,000 amid the COVID pandemic, when the industry took a massive hit after non-essential air travel nearly came to a complete stop.
Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an expert on aviation security, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/us/tsa-firearms-record.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur">The New York Times</a>, “the majority of people are not doing it with malicious intent.”
“They’re simply forgetting,” Dr. Jacobson said, adding the gun sales increasing nationwide among first-time gun buyers could explain the rise in interceptions.
Last year, the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/us/gun-purchases-ownership-pandemic.html">reported</a> data from Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center that showed about a fifth of all Americans bought firearms for the first time, with about 39 percent of all American households owning guns.
Comparing the number of Americans owning a firearm from 2016, a General Social Survey, a public opinion poll conducted by a research center at the University of Chicago, showed that the number increased from 32 percent.
David Fitz, a spokesman for the TSA, told the Times that “the most common reason given by passengers bringing a firearm into a checkpoint is ‘I forgot it was in the bag’ or ‘Someone else packed my bag for me.’”
Fitz added that most “parts of the country where open carry and concealed weapons permits are higher” trend typically in Southern states.
The agency said although some airlines may have additional requirements for traveling with firearms and ammunition, passengers traveling by air who wish to transport firearms must do so in checked baggage by following <a class="survey-processed" href="https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition">proper packing guidance for firearms</a> in checked baggage.

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TSA Reports Record Number Of Gun Interceptions At U.S. Airports

Gun Interceptions At U.S. Airports Reach Record High, TSA Says

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U.S. air marshals reportedly plan to “mutiny” against an order from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> to leave their posts aboard commercial flights and take up posts at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. southern border</a>.
Dozens of marshals have promised to disobey the order in protest, Air Marshal National Council President David Londo told <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/us-air-marshals-plot-mutiny-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a>. President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. air marshals to the southern border to make up for a lack of Border Patrol agents, a move expected to leave the marshals at one-eighth their normal coverage of U.S. flights.
“The rank and file air marshals are going to refuse to deploy and risk termination,” Londo said. “You’re almost going to have a mutiny of a federal agency, which is unheard of.”
“Morale is so destroyed from this,” he added. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) denied Londo’s claim. It is “entirely inaccurate and does not reflect the critical and professional law enforcement role these officers perform,” the TSA said in a statement.
The Federal Air Marshal Service asked marshals last year to volunteer to spend a 30-day stint at the southern border helping border agents process migrants. Last month, the Biden administration made the deployments mandatory.
In a letter obtained by the Examiner, Londo wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, TSA Administrator David Pekoske, and Federal Air Marshal Service Director Tirrell Stevenson that the marshals had lost “confidence” in the officials’ ability to lead.
“As it stands today, we believe that many FAMs will refuse to deploy, believing the order is reckless and leaving our country vulnerable to attack,” Londo wrote. “On behalf of our membership, stop these dangerous and irresponsible deployments before our adversaries take advantage of the opportunity this policy has provided.”
The air marshals’ organization is drawing support from other outside law enforcement groups in its budding fight with the Biden administration. The National Association of Police Organizations issued a statement backing the air marshals’ protest, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/air-marshals-facing-mandatory-border-deployment-plan-mutiny-biden-admin-leaving-flights-unguarded-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
“The Federal Air Marshal Service is understaffed and covering the fewest number of flights since before September 11, 2001,” the association said. “We strongly question the decision by the Department of Homeland Security to divert much-needed aviation security to the southern border especially as we enter the busiest travel season of the year, particularly as a federal emergency has not been declared at the border.”
The Department of Homeland Security pushed back against Londo’s claims that the order sending air marshals to the southern border is leaving commercial flights unprotected.
“The suggestion that flights are being left unprotected is completely false,” the department said in a statement to Fox News. “TSA takes its responsibility to secure the skies for the traveling public very seriously. We will continue to protect commercial flights though [sic] our multi-layered security processes, including through the Federal Air Marshal Service which supports this critical mission on the ground and onboard aircrafts.”

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U.S. Air Marshals Planning Rebellion After Biden Orders Them To Southern Border: Report

U.S. Air Marshals Planning Rebellion After Biden Orders Them To Souther Border: Report

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The Biden administration’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has extended the deadline for requiring non-citizens entering the United States to provide proof of COVID vaccination.
The United States is the only country in the West to still require proof of COVID vaccination for entry, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11390871/Covid-vaccination-proof-required-enter-America-2023.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Daily Mail. Countries still requiring proof of vaccination to enter requiring COVID vaccination to enter include Angola, Azerbaijan, China, Ghana, Cameroon, Indonesia, Liberia, Libya, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Yemen.
“On October 25, 2021, the President issued a Proclamation, Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic, to move away from the country-by-country restrictions previously applied during the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic1 and to adopt an air travel policy that relies primarily on vaccination as an added tool to the current multi-layered strategy to advance the safe resumption of international air travel to the United States,” TSA <a href="https://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/sd-1544-21-03a.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>.
The directive says that the move is intended to protect American citizens.
“Together with the Presidential Proclamation and the CDC Order, these policies are intended to limit the risk that COVID-19, including variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, is introduced, transmitted, and spread into and throughout the United States, potentially overwhelming United States healthcare and public health resources, endangering the health and safety of the American people, and threatening the security of our civil aviation system,” TSA continues.
All aircraft operators are required to make people present “paper or digital documentation of Proof of Being Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19” or  present documentation proving they merit an exemption.
As far back as August 2021, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/01/21/fact-check-vaccines-limit-serious-illness-and-death-covid-19/9185671002/">admitted</a>, “Our vaccines are working exceptionally well. They continue to work well for delta, with regard to severe illness and death – they prevent it. But what they can&#8217;t do anymore is prevent transmission.”
In mid-October, Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-union-covid-19-cases-skyrocket-europe-now-leads-world-in-active-infections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European lawmakers</a> that the Pfizer giant never tested its COVID vaccine to determine if it stopped transmission.
European Union Member of Parliament Rob Roos asked Small if the company tested its mRNA vaccine on stopping transmission before it offered the jab to consumers, asserting, “If not, please say it clearly. If yes, are you willing to share the data with this committee? And I really want a straight answer, yes or no, and I’m looking forward to it.”
“Regarding the question around, uh, did we know about stopping the immunization [sic] before it entered the market?” Small answered, adding, “No.”
Related: <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/scandalous-pfizer-exec-tells-eu-lawmaker-covid-jab-was-never-tested-to-show-it-blocked-transmission/">&#8216;Scandalous&#8217;: Pfizer Exec Tells EU Lawmaker COVID Jab Was Never Tested To Show It Blocked Transmission</a>

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TSA Extends Deadline Requiring COVID Vaccine Proof For Entry To U.S.

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