The Federal Aviation Administration will close the El Paso Texas Airport and surrounding airspace for ten days, a bizarre move that will have a massive negative impact on the communities and businesses in the region.
The FAA said late Tuesday that the flight restrictions were for “special security reasons.” There has been no additional explanation for the decision, but there are multiple theories about why Trump’s FAA would halt all aviation activity above this southern border town of 700,000.
Some possibilities include a planned military action or exercise, a credible security threat, or a very sensitive package or person that needed to be transported.
“Important context: the El Paso TFR is not like the 9/11 nationwide airspace shutdown. DC & NY restrictions were created later,” CNN’s Pete Muntean said. “A ban on all flights over a U.S. city—including medevac and police helicopters—has no modern precedent.”
“There is no explanation for FAA closing El Paso airport for ten days except for Special Security Concerns. It’s an unprecedented move,” former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem wrote on X Wednesday morning. “The airport calls itself the gateway to Mexico. If we were going into Mexico, this is what it would look like.”
While Kayyem’s take is probably the worst case scenario, what could be worth shutting down a major airport—and a hub of U.S.-Mexico trade—for 10 whole days?
“The highly consequential decision by FAA to shut down the El Paso Airport for 10 days is unprecedented and has resulted in significant concern within the community,” said Representative Veronica Escobar, who represents the El Paso region. “From what my office and I have been able to gather overnight and early this morning there is no immediate threat to the community or surrounding areas.”
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