I for one am shocked that ICE would lie about a shooting.
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Notice that charges were dropped and only later a city camera unrelated to ICE was found to have footage contradicting ICE. The ICE agents who perjured themselves have just been placed on paid administrative leave.
At this point, I assume whatever ICE says is probably a lie, potentially with a grain of truth.
Don’t comply with ICE demands for assistance, lose your international airport’s status.
That wouldn’t crash the economy at all.
It’s almost like putting someone with 3 MMA fights and 0 bachelor degrees in charge of DHS is a bad idea.
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His responsibility is security not the economy. (Economy is the Attorney General, isn’t it?)
I don’t know how customs works. Suppose Jamie Dimon is flying into NY from Europe on his Gulfstream G650ER. Would this be an inconvenience for him?
Yes, but a minor one as he would land in NJ, clear customs, then have his plane relocate to NY should that matter to him.
It depends on whether Teterboro has pissed off ICE/CBP.
EDIT: I see that New Jersey has, at the state level, constrained local cooperation, so it could be affected if a policy were applied consistently/logically. I suspect that TEB would get exempted.
If it didn’t…how does Westchester stand in ICE’s eyes?
Is it within 100 miles of an international airport?
Seems to me that ICE would be shooting themselves in the foot with this approach. Their jurisdiction would be impacted if that airport is no longer an “international” airport.
Wasn’t sure where this belonged, but Kristi Noem’s affair jet is going to be purchased by the government (different reporting says for $70m to $108m) to be used by the First Lady.
Typically, the First Lady would travel with POTUS. But it seems like she hates being near him.
She won’t need the bed in the plane if traveling with him.
CBP is the agency whose powers are tied to distance to a border or port of entry.
ICE has power countrywide.
Thanks. What I’m getting is that even private planes use the customs connected to the ordinary folks terminals. I wasn’t sure.
I figure if it is a inconvenience for the people who fly private planes, Trump won’t be so quick.
I think in the documentation for Teterboro or White Plains, there’s guidance to the effect of CBP only being able to process aircraft with 15 or fewer, or maybe 30 or fewer passengers. In other words, they can process international arrivals on private or chartered planes, but not the airline flights that the poors will typically use.
I’m not certain what would happen if a private jet were to arrive in the US at JFK, EWR, LAX, etc. I suspect that it’s still a more individualized experience, and the passengers and crew wouldn’t be funneled through the cattle chute with airline arrivals…but I don’t actually know.
If someone would like to pay for me to charter a private jet and find out first-hand, I’d be very willing to go take one for the team. 
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You can pay for a subscription like Netjets.
I don’t think my employer will let me expense that.
(Hell, corporate travel policy has me booking coach for transatlantic flights!)
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