Air Marshals Sound Alarm on Border Deployment, Warn Air Travel Is ‘Less Safe’

A traveler walks past a Southwest Airlines airplane as it taxies from a gate at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Md., on Oct. 11, 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

An air marshal group sounded the alarm on Nov. 28 that air travel is becoming less safe as marshals are being sent to the U.S.–Mexico border.

“We have been decimated. We have been depleted. We’re on less than 1 percent of flights,” Air Marshal National Council head Sonia Labosco told Fox News on Nov. 28. “These ground-based duties that they’re pulling us out of the sky to go to the border are just demolishing our chances at stopping another 9/11.”