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• Sean Duffy’s daughter says TSA delays nearly made her miss a flight while pregnant.

• She refused a body scanner and was subjected to a prolonged, invasive pat-down.

• She blasted TSA as unconstitutional while still praising Trump’s border enforcement.

This is one of those stories that perfectly captures why so many Americans have quietly grown to despise the TSA. Evita Duffy-Alfonso wasn’t trying to be difficult. She wasn’t causing a scene. She was pregnant, exercising a perfectly legal option to avoid a body scanner, and asking to be treated with basic respect. Instead, she says she got attitude, pressure, and an absurd delay that nearly cost her a flight.

And here’s the thing critics always gloss over: opting out of the scanner is allowed. It’s not suspicious. It’s not radical. It’s literally baked into TSA policy. Yet time and again, travelers who choose that option are treated like they’ve committed some moral offense.

What makes this resonate is that Duffy-Alfonso explicitly supports strong border enforcement and national security. This isn’t some anti-law-enforcement rant. It’s a common-sense critique of a bloated agency that has mastered inconvenience without mastering competence.

If we’re serious about a “golden age of transportation,” it probably starts with remembering that Americans aren’t the enemy—and pregnant women aren’t terrorists.

From Western Journal:

The daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy exploded at the Transportation Security Administration Thursday after an interaction she said almost caused her to miss a flight.

“I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner,” Evita Duffy-Alfonso posted on X.

“The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s ‘safe,’” she posted.

“After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight. All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn’t even good at its job,” she posted.

I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner. The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman…

— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) December 18, 2025

 

“Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly if I’d handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR). Then I could enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country. Is this freedom?” she wrote.

She summarized her experience as “ Travel, brought to you by George Orwell — and the privilege of convenience based solely on your willingness to surrender biometric data and submit to radiation exposure?”

“The ‘golden age of transportation’ cannot begin until the TSA is gone,” she wrote.

That post followed a briefer eruption.

TSA = unreasonable, warrantless searches of passengers and their property. That means it violates the Fourth Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional. Pls abolish @realDonaldTrump @Sec_Noem

— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) December 18, 2025

“TSA = unreasonable, warrantless searches of passengers and their property. That means it violates the Fourth Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional. Pls abolish @realDonaldTrump @Sec_Noem,” she posted.

The TSA is a division of the Department of Homeland Security. Neither it nor DOT responded to questions from The Hill about the incident.

Duffy-Alfonso later added a postscript.

“To be clear, I am 100% behind all that @POTUS & @DHS has done to keep out terrorists and illegals, especially at the border. In fact, President Trump & @Sec_Noem aren’t getting enough credit for achieving zero illegal border crossings and stopping deranged terrorists from coming into the U.S.,” she posted.

To be clear, I am 100% behind all that @POTUS & @DHS has done to keep out terrorists and illegals, especially at the border. In fact, President Trump & @Sec_Noem aren’t getting enough credit for achieving zero illegal border crossings and stopping deranged terrorists from coming… https://t.co/acmM7HbHS8

— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) December 18, 2025

“But there needs to be more common sense around how we treat Americans exercising their right to travel,” she wrote.

“And I hope TSA works on improving their treatment of expectant mothers who don’t want to go through body scanners to protect their unborn children. We can do both. Peace, friends,” she posted.

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