BLACKSBURG, Va., March 25 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Although the government has sent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to airports around the country, a Virginia Tech expert on airport engineering doubts their ability to make an impact on the long lines at security checkpoints.
"TSA agents are specially trained over the course of months. ICE agents are not trained to operate magnetometers or look at the scanned pictures of passenger carry-on items, so it's mostly a gimmick," said Antonio Trani, a professor of transportation infrastructure and systems engineering.
Trani offers this advice to passengers facing an endless airport queue since a partial govern...