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BumRushDaShow

(156,853 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 07:47 PM Friday

Kristi Noem announces new TSA security lane for families and military members

Source: NBC News

July 18, 2025, 9:48 AM EDT


Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Thursday that the TSA will open security lanes dedicated to families and military service members.

“Families on the Fly" will create dedicated security lines for families with small children and give families a $15 discount for TSA pre-check enrollment, Noem said at a press conference at Nashville International Airport.

The new policy has already begun a pilot program at an airport in Orlando, Florida, home to Disney World, Noem added.

“This means that when families come into our airports and enter our TSA security checkpoints, they will have dedicated lanes specific for families,” Noem said. “They’ll be expanded areas that will give them the benefit of recognizing that they have children with them, and will help make sure that we have the ability to take care of them and their families as they go through this expedited process with their kiddos.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/noem-announces-new-tsa-security-lane-families-military-members-rcna219548

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twodogsbarking

(14,455 posts)
2. So if there are any terrorists out there be sure to attach your bombs to your chldren. Express lane bombing.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 08:01 PM
Friday

She's so dumb we need a new word just for her. Screen everybody or don't bother at all.

Irish_Dem

(72,487 posts)
6. Exactly. Terrorists now have an expedited lane just for them. :(
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:12 PM
Friday

This woman is a true idiot.

sheshe2

(92,925 posts)
4. Is this supposed to divert attention from her piss poor handling of Texas floods?
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 08:07 PM
Friday

Did she dress up as a stewardess today or as a pilot! She loves her costumes for these events.

I also saw that she banned Rep Justin Jones from the event today. An event that happened in his district! She knew he would ask her questions.


Tennessee state Representative Justin Jones was removed from the news conference of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Thursday before the secretary arrived. Jones said he had come to ask Noem what happened to his constituents who were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a recent weeklong operation in Nashville.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/tennessee-three-member-removed-kristi-105829319.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEO3P3cls7AG8eqR4SZx-d3qcthy_lLU1AS4Q5vbRJ8og_AxBRpKxlkLUq4VOF7MK68ARPvyErsTTIzaXPcyBhCH0-K0dNkqrA0HJV_Azm7le0hBxu3x5rF3gDXVpH_hTO7kXZkZ4341OfKYecH-k0wfNdwArdB66bx4uVvWbJWp

Irish_Dem

(72,487 posts)
7. After killing all the kids at the river camp, ICE Barbie is going to give kids a fast lane at the airport.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:14 PM
Friday

To make herself look better.

maxrandb

(16,689 posts)
14. Next, Netherworld Barbie will claim she invented standing in line
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 07:49 AM
Sunday

We all know standing in line was invented by the Archangel Michael.

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Karasu

(1,640 posts)
5. A THIRD lane? I don't think these clowns are competent enough to pull that off. It's often chaotic enough with just
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 08:47 PM
Friday

the two.

yardwork

(67,250 posts)
15. In some airports there are already three lanes.
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 09:08 AM
Sunday

This will probably make all the lanes longer and more chaotic.

lonely bird

(2,424 posts)
8. Wow.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:23 PM
Friday

Once the soldiers get injured or retire or are disabled then fuck ‘em.

Performative bullshit.

LudwigPastorius

(12,968 posts)
9. Umm...
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 10:43 PM
Friday
https://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/publications/local_attachments/PIRUS-Mass%20Casualty%20Extremist%20Offenders%20with%20Military%20Background-Final%20%284%29.pdf

Subjects in PIRUS (Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States database ) with U.S. military backgrounds are 2.41 times more likely to be classified as mass casualty offenders than individuals who did not serve in the armed forces.

BaronChocula

(3,004 posts)
11. It's just white families
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 02:05 AM
Saturday

I don't like to make predictions... but...

Plus, that will make things faster for everyone else. Yay! get the families out of the way with your strollers, devices, bags, sick kids, grumpiness, marital flare-ups, and such.

If Homeland Security Hitler does away with the shoe thing, I may go mag[DU membership pending]

jmowreader

(52,543 posts)
12. From an Operational Security standpoint the "Honor Lane" is an incredibly bad idea
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 08:02 PM
Saturday

Imagine you're a Bad Guy and you want to kill you some GIs. Just buy a cheap airline ticket, wear a spy cam and sit on a bench facing the TSA checkpoint watching the Honor Lane.

mainer

(12,374 posts)
13. Europe has a "young families" line
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 04:51 AM
Sunday

I’ve traveled there several times with my son’s family and they have a 2-year-old. They always get pulled aside into a special quick screening and immigration line for babies and toddlers. It’s a sensible arrangement, I think.

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