As another shutdown impacts travelers, some see privatizing TSA screening as a solution
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Some of the nation’s busiest airports saw hourslong security lines this weekend, as the partial government shutdown begins to hit air travel.

Long security lines snaked into baggage claim areas and parking garages at some U.S. airports this weekend, a possible indicator of more widespread travel problems as the latest government shutdown drags on.

That kind of disruption, while not yet widespread, is not a concern that typically surfaces at San Francisco International Airport, the largest of nearly two dozen U.S. airports where screening checkpoints are staffed by private contractors under a little-used federal program that allows airports to outsource security screenings while maintaining TSA oversight.

Because contractors’ pay comes from a federal contract, it often continues even when the government shuts down.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    It is very racist, though, any elevated melanin levels in the skin will make you subject to getting picked out and searched.

    Ive seen this first hand at LAX too. They let me, the white guy go through the metal detector while forcing my wife, MIL, and SIL with brown skin to go through the body scanner.