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U.S. immigration agents began deploying at more than a dozen U.S. airports on Monday (March 23) to aid security screening as staffing absences by unpaid airport security officers have caused massive delays. TSA employee and union official Pascual Contreras said the agents were "just in the way." - REUTERS

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00:10On a personal level, I don't think we need them here.
00:13We need to be paid.
00:13Why would you bring another agency to be TSA when you already have TSA?
00:18They've been standing around outside the whole time.
00:21So I would hate to call out another agency, but
00:24what I'm getting from some of the officers is that they're just in the way.
00:27Now we're on top of having the heavy burden.
00:32Now we have to train them in how we do our job.
00:36I saw the signs when we were getting off the SkyTrain that they were going to be here and
00:42then we were sitting down and all of a sudden about six of them walked by and one was a
00:47female.
00:48So that kind of surprised me, but it was very intimidating and it's scary.
00:54I'm scared because of what's going on in our country.
00:59It's so hard, all of this happening.
01:03So I just, I don't know what to say.
01:06I don't know what to say today.
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