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   From: noreply@mixmin.net   
      
   In response to a congressman's request for information based upon a   
   whistleblower's tip, the TSA admitted that illegal aliens are   
   allowed to fly even if the only identification they have is an   
   arrest warrant or warrant of removal from DHS related to their   
   illegal status.  So, while you're flashing the REAL ID driver's   
   license that was a total pain to obtain, the illegal alien in front   
   of you just shows his arrest warrant.  That'll teach those illegal   
   aliens not to break into our country.   
      
   Think about travel now, compared to travel before COVID and 9/11.   
   In the old days, you'd walk up to the airplane, often with friends   
   and family at your side to see you off; show your ticket; and board   
   the plane.  Even without paying an extra fee, you might have   
   legroom.  Only Saudi Arabian women wore face coverings, and everyone   
   felt appropriately sorry for these sad women hidden from view.   
      
   Nowadays, you must have a formal government-approved form of   
   identification, whether it's a passport or a driver's license.  But   
   it can't be just any driver's license.  Instead, it must be a REAL   
   ID.   
      
   For many of us, that meant the pain in the neck of dealing with our   
   state DMV despite just recently renewing our old driver's license.   
   When I did that a few years ago in California, the clerk snatched my   
   old license from me and then told me I needed to pass a written test   
   as part of getting the REAL ID if I wanted to drive home.  I wasn't   
   expecting that.  (I passed.)   
      
   Once at the airport, the TSA agent scrutinizes your license or   
   passport as well as being placed on a scanner of some sort.  That's   
   in addition to stripping off all your outerwear, practically   
   unpacking your bags, and getting x-rayed because we can always use a   
   little more radiation.  Once on the plane, of course, we're packed   
   like sardines and forced to wear stifling masks in some of the most   
   purified air on the planet.  The indignities never seem to end.   
      
      
      
      
   But a whistleblower introduced a new wrinkle to all of this. It   
   turns out that, if you're an illegal alien lacking both passport and   
   license (never mind that REAL ID), you can still fly in America.   
      
   When Rep. Lance Goodwin (R-Texas) wrote a letter to the TSA asking   
   about the fact that illegal aliens without official identification   
   are boarding American planes, the TSA 'fessed up:   
      
   Responding to Republican Texas Rep. Lance Gooden's Dec. 15 inquiry   
   about illegal migrants flying across the country, TSA Administrator   
   David Pekoske explained that certain Department of Homeland Security   
   (DHS) documents may be considered acceptable forms of alternate   
   identification for non-citizens, including a "Warrant for Arrest of   
   Alien" and a "Warrant of Removal/Deportation."   
      
   "TSA's response confirms the Biden Administration is knowingly   
   putting our national security at risk," Gooden told the DCNF.   
   "Unknown and unvetted immigrants shouldn't even be in the country,   
   much less flying without proper identification."   
      
   The same letter also says that the "alien identification number" on   
   these DHS documents gets run through some databases to ensure that   
   the person isn't a terrorist or on another watch list.  In addition,   
   he says the people get extra screening.   
      
      
   That procedure, naturally, assumes that the DHS documents are   
   accurate.  However, Gooden reported to the Daily Caller, which broke   
   the story, "that he was told by a border patrol officer that 'they   
   often have to take migrants at their word that they are who they say   
   they are' when issuing DHS documents accepted by TSA as alternate   
   forms of identification."   
      
   In just the first ten months of 2021, these DHS documents were used   
   at airport security by 45,577 people — or around 124 people per day.   
      
   I hope all of this makes you feel safer flying America's unfriendly   
   skies.   
      
   But it's not just the security aspects of this that are so   
   maddening.  Someone who is in the country illegally shouldn't have   
   the privilege of hopping onto an airplane.  Even as Joe Biden has   
   made masks mandatory and is contemplating forcing vaccines on air   
   travelers, illegal aliens have been flying around America as if they   
   own it.   
      
   Once again, leftists are punishing American citizens and legal   
   residents, while at the same time making it clear that people who   
   are illegally in this country get special treatment.   
      
   I don't believe that America has ever before suffered a governing   
      
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