ICE Is Deploying To Airports. TSA Agents Say Its a rough ...

What’s Happening

Let’s talk about Trump Administration officials also don’t seem to agree on the details of the deployment that’s mere hours away.

Starting on Monday, the Trump administration will be sending ICE agents to airports across the country, Trumps border czar Tom Homan just dropped on Sunday. Funding for both ICE and TSAs parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, lapsed on February 14 after the Senate could not pass a funding bill for the Department. (wild, right?)

Democrats have refused to sign off on a DHS funding bill without modest changes made to the rules governing ICE in its crackdown on immigrants, especially in light of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti .

The Details

The lapse in funding has put a huge financial strain on TSA workers who are expected to work without pay for the second time in six months, with the first one being during the longest full government shutdown in U. A third of TSA agents working at half the busiest airports across the nation called out of work on Saturday.

With airports working in reduced capacity, travelers have been met with insanely long lines at security checkpoints . As Democrats stuck to their guns on DHS funding requirements, Trump threatened the ICE deployment on his Truth Social account on Saturday, claiming that the agents would not only help TSA but would also arrest immigrants, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia.

Why This Matters

The union representing TSA officers promptly issued a statement against the decision, saying that ICE agents will create more problems than they could solve. ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security, Everett Kelly, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, dropped in the statement. Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap.

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The Bottom Line

Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap. There is inconsistency coming from administration officials on just what exactly ICE agents are well-trained to accomplish.

What’s your take on this whole situation?