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A new security screener that people can simply walk past may soon be coming to an airport near you. Last year, U.S. airports nationwide began adopting HEXWAVE—a commercialized walkthrough security screening system based on microwave imaging technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory—to satisfy a new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) mandate for enhanced employee screening to detect metallic and nonmetallic threats.

Now, by closing the curtain on the shoe requirements, Noem has indulged in a rival form of spectacle: populism theater. Her new policy gives citizens something they actually want, and something that has until this point been reserved for upscale travelers who pay for premium airport-security-hopping services.

The Transportation Security Administration is reportedly considering rolling back its long-standing policy requiring passengers to remove shoes at checkpoints.

The Transportation Security Administration announced the end of a 20-year policy that required all US airport passengers to remove their shoes at checkpoints

The shoe policy is one of TSA’s “most loathed” requirements, according to The New York Times. The policy has been in place since 2006, which was nearly five years after a terrorist tried to detonate an explosive in his shoes aboard a flight, the Times said.

At long last, the Travel Security Administration (TSA) appears to be rolling back one of its most-hated airport security rules. As of July 7, according to an internal memo reported on by numerous travel industry sources, passengers will no longer be required to remove their shoes at agency checkpoints.