Agents were sent to help manage security bottlenecks that have sprung up amid a funding lapse for the Department of Homeland Security.
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…
No one is happy about Donald Trump’s decision to use Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to help run airport security. ICE agents were deployed Monday to at least 13 airports across the country, including Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, and all three New York City airports. Rather than simply agree to pay Transportation Security Administration workers,…
President claims immigration agents could help manage long lines as TSA agents go unpaid during partial shutdown Pilot and co-pilot killed after jet collision at LaGuardiaUS politics live – latest updatesSecurity lines stretched for hours on Monday at US airports where unpaid Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) screening agents refused to report for…
The Trump administration began deploying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to some of the busiest airports in the country Monday morning.
Hundreds of ICE agents have been deployed to 14 airports, in cities including New York, Atlanta and Houston.
ICE agents have been spotted at airports in Chicago, New Orleans, New York, Miami, San Francisco, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Pittsburgh.
Agents were filmed patrolling JFK Airport in New York amid huge lines caused by the partial TSA shutdown on Monday morning.
My advice for air travelers: Keep showing up extra early at the airport, because ICE agents' presence probably won't make a positive difference.
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