Well, they did have a couple of problems. They had to tell 10's of thousands of qualified, white, male, citizens that there were no jobs for them while they searched for minimally qualified, minority candidates and a way to con Congress into allowing non-citizens to have those jobs.
That's why 12/31/02 will come and go and they still won't have all of the designated airports under federal control.
They had no problem and all the money in the world for hiring 72,000 high school drop-outs at $24,000 to $50,000 a year to screen passengers and baggage in the airports.