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>https://www.breitbart.com/border/2026/08/11/never-again-airlines-obstruct-ice-crackdown-on-the-very-visa-overstays-that-enabled-9-11-hijackers/
Never Again? Airlines Obstruct ICE Crackdown on Same Visa Overstays that Enabled 9/11 Hijackers
11 Aug 2026438
With the 25th anniversary of September 11 fast approaching, major U.S. airlines and union bosses are actively obstructing federal law enforcement efforts to apprehend foreign nationals who have overstayed their legal visas—the exact structural vulnerability exploited by the 9/11 hijackers to murder nearly 3,000 Americans.
In a series of tense airport standoffs, gate agents and corporate executives at major carriers like Southwest Airlines have repeatedly blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from accessing jet bridges, shielded passenger manifests, and demanded administrative hurdles to prevent federal agents from taking illegal visa overstayers into custody, according to recent reports by national news outlets.
While corporate elites and open-border advocates frame their resistance as a defense of “passenger safety” and terminal protocol, federal authorities cooperating with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are making clear that American commercial aviation will no longer serve as an unmonitored safe haven for foreign lawbreakers defying final orders of removal and federal immigration law….
The 9/11 Commission reported that as many as five of the 19 terrorist hijackers were visa overstays.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that 400 non-U.S. citizens were apprehended while illegally crossing the border between ports of entry were listed on the terrorist watch list during the four years of the Biden border crisis. This does not include illegal alien “gotaways” who successfully entered without apprehension.
In addition, nearly 1.7 million “Special Interest Aliens” were admitted to the U.S. by the Biden administration during this period, or were “gotaways” who entered without being apprehended, according to a report by the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees. Special Interest Aliens are people who came to the U.S. from countries with known ties to terrorism.
JetBlue and Southwest Airlines began pushing back in recent weeks to the increased enforcement activity by ICE officers who are making arrests at the gate, or even on aircraft, the WSJ reported.
Airlines for America, a trade group that represents the major airlines, met with DHS officials in July. A spokesperson told the WSJ, “Airlines have had constructive discussions with ICE and TSA to ensure if law-enforcement activity occurs at an airport, there are proper procedures and protocols in place to prioritize the safety and security of all involved.”