Rep. Hice to Newsmax: Air Marshals Not Trained to Handle Border Mess

The Federal Air Marshal Service was designed to mitigate proactively threats taking place during air travel.

As such, these specially trained marshals don’t belong on the ground, patrolling the United States-Mexico border and being tasked with cleaning up President Joe Biden’s mess, said Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga.

“Our air marshals [exist] to defend against threats made in aviation. They’re not needed to solve domestic or humanitarian problems created by the [Biden] administration,” Hice told Newsmax Friday evening, while appearing on “Spicer & Co.” with host Sean Spicer. By sending air marshals to the southern border, the Biden administration would be “taking away from potential safety issues with aviation,” said Hice, while adding many of the air marshals “aren’t trained” to encounter migrants illegally entering the country or to defend against cartels organizing human- and drug-trafficking operations…. (Excerpt from Newsmax)