According to reports, US Air Marshals are intending to “mutiny” against President Joe Biden‘s order to leave their posts aboard commercial planes and travel to the US-Mexico border.
According to Air Marshal National Council President David Londo, hundreds of marshals have pledged to directly defy the order in protest. Due to a scarcity of Border Patrol agents, which has exacerbated the immigration situation, Biden’s White House dispatched US air marshals to the southern border.
“The rank and file air marshals are going to refuse to deploy and risk termination,” Londo predicted.“You’re almost going to have a mutiny of a federal agency, which is unheard of. Morale is so destroyed from this. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
The Transportation Security Administration issued a statement refuting the accusation, stating it is “entirely inaccurate and does not reflect the critical and professional law enforcement role these officers perform.”
“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 Washington 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,” according to the Daily Wire.
So, the Biden administration violated nearly every immigration law we have on the books since day one of the administration, making the border crisis completely overwhelming. And due to that lawlessness, a number of border agents left the service due to either low morale or they just could no longer take part in the illegality that Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas demanded.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“As it is today,” Londo wrote, “we believe that many FAMs will refuse to deploy, believing the order is reckless and leaving our country vulnerable to attack,” adding, “On behalf of our membership, stop these dangerous and irresponsible deployments before our adversaries take advantage of the opportunity this policy has provided.”
“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 rebuffed Londo’s accusations that the directive deploying air marshals to the southern border leaves commercial flights insecure.
“The suggestion that flights are being left unprotected is completely false,” the department told 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.”
This has been a difficult week for Biden.
