Originally published at: Delaware Airport Lease Debate Emerged Over ICE Connection
Wilmington lease application led to questions over whether an airport could reject a tenant.
The picture is Wilmington International in North Carolina, not Wilmington Delaware.
Best leave AI to the kids?
In my personal opinion, public outrage regarding how ICE is currently operated is justified. The issue of deciding which tenants are allowed access to an airport should have nothing to do with that opinion, however.
FAA requirements for grant awards are in general reasonable and ensure an airport’s fair use for aviation activity is continued. As users of those facilities, we should all be worried when political affiliation enters into those decisions.
For example, pilot groups very quickly refer to those grant assurances when neighbors move in next to an airport and start complaining about airplane noise. Let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot here.
So–it appears that we have an airport that is government-funded (and usually have anti-discrimination laws built into that funding)–denying ANOTHER government agency (ICE–part of Customs)–WHOSE JOB IS TO KEEP ILLEGALS (as defined by an act of the U.S. Congress) out of the country. ICE (a public function)is just doing the job that it was created to do.
The law is the law–either enforce it, or repeal it–you can’t have it both ways–just because you don’t like the law!
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