"I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I'm pregnant and didn't feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner, Duffy-Afonso wrote. The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it's safe.' She continued: After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight. All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn't even good at its job."
"Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly if I'd handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR). Then I could enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country. Is this freedom? Travel, brought to you by George Orwelland the privilege of convenience based solely on your willingness to surrender biometric data and submit to radiation exposure? The golden age of transportation cannot begin until the TSA is gone."
Evita Duffy-Alfonso, 26, said she waited 15 minutes for a TSA pat-down after declining the full-body scanner because she is pregnant and wanted to avoid radiation. She described agents as passive-aggressive and rude and said they pressured her and another pregnant woman to enter the scanner. After the pat-down she barely made her flight. She called the TSA unconstitutional and ineffective, criticized biometric programs like CLEAR and the surrender of biometric data, and argued that convenience should not require giving up privacy. She noted TSA falls under DHS and said neither Kristi Noem nor Sean Duffy replied.
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