So I went and did some quick research and

It’s basically as bad as it sounds

They started breaking ground in 2019 but the government has been trying to build this airport since 2011. More and more of the locals don’t want it because of how it’ll destroy the area even though they’ve been offered a lot of money for their land and promised jobs. None of the scientists who work in the area want it. South America like Chile/Bolivia/Peru/Ecuador/etc etc etc are such unique and old places. The ecology in South America is so special and has species that are nowhere else in the world. The landscape is unusual and special. The people there have been able to maintain traditions despite colonization in a lot of cases. The artifacts there are priceless, we’ve lost so so so much to colonization, knowledge, architecture, culture, artifacts. These areas are delicate and need protection. A lot of the governments in South America have corruption, like anywhere else. The people and land are constantly sacrificed. The Atacama desert in Chile has so so much to protect and they’re mining nonstop for copper, polluting water, evicting eighty year olds and disabled people to make way for construction, piping away their water and plowing through a delicate desert ecosystem. There’s a clothes dump so big there you can see it from space

There’s so so much to lose in South America. If you visit the altiplano in Bolivia, there are native farmers living out there essentially off grid. Chile has many indigenous groups still despite being so industrialized. We still have Quechua, Aymara and Mapuche being spoken every day. The landscape MATTERS to us. It breaks my heart to see the land so disrespected and ruined. The people are connected to the land. You can talk to almost any indigenous group and they’ll tell you the same thing. It’s a cultural thing that was passed down for thousands of years. The shapes the mountains make against the sky, the way a lake sits between the hills, flocks of guanaco and vicuña grazing. The landscape is sacred and old

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Trump originally said the agents would be helping with passenger screening to help with lines (but, because he’s a racist, said that they would “arrest illegal immigrants… with a heavy emphasis on those from Somalia”). Instead border czar Homan said they’re there only for crowd control.

Airports across the country are seeing very long security lines because DHS has technically been under a government shutdown since the end of January. This means that “non-essential” personnel like TSA agents are not getting paid, while “essential” personnel like ICE agents (who have also been separately funded through the earlier OBBBA) are getting paid. The shutdown is continuing because Senate Democrats are refusing to fund DHS until ICE agrees to follow basic principles of the law (identifying themselves, requiring warrants to enter homes, etc).

Notice how these ICE agents "working" at a U.S. airport are NOT wearing their masks?

I thought they were so afraid of being doxxed that they had to wear masks to protect themselves and their families?

Apparently not.

ICE agents were probably told NOT to wear masks at the airports to avoid terrorizing average Americans.

This gives credence to the hypothesis that ICE wears masks to terrorize immigrants and to avoid responsibility when they use illegal tactics to apprehend them.

ICE agents currently being fine with not wearing masks at the airports suggests that the Democrats' demand that ICE stop wearing masks when detaining immigrants is more than reasonable.

We wouldn't know this if Trump hadn't ordered ICE to work at the airports to support the currently unfunded TSA.

Oh, the irony.