Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been deployed to US airports to assist TSA during the partial government shutdown.
The partial government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security has caused major staffing shortages within the Transportation Security Administration, an agency under DHS that handles airport security procedures created in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. TSA officers have not been paid for over a…
A reporter from MS NOW, as well as a traveler interviewed in Newark’s Liberty International Airport, both expressed doubt about what purpose ICE agents are fulfilling as they watched them Monday after their deployment to help currently unpaid TSA agents.Reporting from the airport, MS NOW’s Will McDuffy shared footage of unmasked and armed agents…
Travelers are divided over Trump's plan to deploy ICE agents to airports as the DHS shutdown leaves TSA workers unpaid and increasingly short-staffed.
The local leaders of the union representing T.S.A. workers characterized the ICE officers in airports as unhelpful and a distraction.
ICE agents have been spotted at airports in Chicago, New Orleans, New York, Miami, San Francisco, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Pittsburgh.
'This is an important microcosm of modern America. Democrats screw things up. We try to fix it. Leftists protest you trying to fix the problem they created'
