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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,429 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:06 PM Jul 2025

Security Experts Are 'Losing Their Minds' Over an FAA Proposal

President Donald Trump’s “golden age of America” has no need for migrant labor. Picking crops? There are 34 million able-bodied American adults on Medicaid who can do that grueling work. Building homes? Native-born Americans will handle those jobs. Meat processing? The country has no use for foreign laborers willing to put in the hours for “slave wages.”

When it comes to one of the country’s most sensitive and technically demanding government jobs, however, the Trump administration is quietly humming a different tune. I obtained documents showing that the Federal Aviation Administration is looking into the possibility of hiring foreigners as air traffic controllers. “The FAA is facing significant air traffic controller staffing shortages, and to address this issue, is exploring the idea of recruiting experienced international talent,” states a three-page executive summary of the initiative, which has not been previously reported.

“However, this approach must be carefully managed to ensure that the FAA’s high standards for safety and procedures are upheld,” the summary adds, acknowledging a need to “balance the critical areas of safety, training, national security, and immigration law to create a sustainable and effective workforce strategy for the FAA.”

A U.S. official involved in the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a matter that had not been made public, told me that the FAA’s security experts are “losing their minds” over the prospect of turning foreign nationals into key nodes of the United States aerospace system. Of particular concern is the access they could gain to radars and communications networks as well as sensitive information about military flight paths, restricted airspace, and air-defense zones.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-foreign-air-traffic-controllers-211100346.html

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Security Experts Are 'Losing Their Minds' Over an FAA Proposal (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 OP
Making it all unsafe is the point live love laugh Jul 2025 #1
I'm losing my mind right with them. This administration is so traitorous it's beyond my comprehension. chowder66 Jul 2025 #2

live love laugh

(16,484 posts)
1. Making it all unsafe is the point
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:13 PM
Jul 2025


So much for ascending Maslow’s Hierarchy. We are all being forced to the bottom.

chowder66

(12,514 posts)
2. I'm losing my mind right with them. This administration is so traitorous it's beyond my comprehension.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 09:18 PM
Jul 2025

That there isn't a branch of the military or a police apparatus that can arrest these assholes is fucking madness!

So if the administration released a dirty bomb in one of our cities would the military just sit idly by or would they help place the bomb because the orange fucknut decided we all deserve to die?

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