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    Regardless of what this event is, someone in the Trump administration just realized they can perform economic terrorism on cities they don’t like by arbitrarily shutting down their airspace.

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    El Paso + parts of New Mexico means Ft Bliss. That’s where the US Army/Air Force does nearly all of their munitions training. I wonder if ICE is getting a special training course bc that’s also about how long one lasts.

    Eta: this is also the last stop soldiers make before forward deploying. They could have a large quantity of people they intend to deploy in the very near future. Good reason to keep eyes off the area with all the tensions in the middle east and wherever else Trump decides to go to war with this week.

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        More like, closing off airspace so nobody accidently gets ICE on camera training on MRAPs and 50 Cals before they unleash them on US cities

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    This reads like even medevac helicopters will be grounded. Don’t have a medical emergency in a rural part of the Trans-Pecos, I guess

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      You can apply for an exception to a TFR. Whether it would be granted quickly enough or whether Trump’s FAA would be competent enough to allow it is another question.

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    More Concentration camps?? Will the US have military build up to attack Cuba or Mexico from here? This fascism has to end.

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      Duffy said the FAA and the Department of War acted swiftly to address the incident.

      Anyone who says “Department of War” sounds like a simpering idiot.