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TSA union blasts ICE airport deployment: 'You cannot improvise that'

Mar 22, 2026Center Right

The union representing more than 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers blasted President Trump's plan to deploy ICE agents to airports, warning that putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints is not the solution.

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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…

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Sending ICE to airports a bad idea: Flight attendants unions

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Sending ICE to airports a bad idea: Flight attendants unions

Unions representing flight attendants say the Department of Homeland Security has the money to pay TSA officers now.

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Homan insists ICE ‘highly trained’ for airport security in TSA support role

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Mar 22, 2026

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Homan insists ICE ‘highly trained’ for airport security in TSA support role

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers prepare to deploy to airports starting Monday to assist Transportation Security Administration agents, border czar Tom Homan outlined a limited support role focused on tasks such as guarding exits and easing passenger flow. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Homan said ICE officers would not…

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Lauren Boebert called out for fabricating ICE airport statistics

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Mar 22, 2026

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Lauren Boebert called out for fabricating ICE airport statistics

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) made a head-turning claim on X Monday about how President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement deployment to airports is already producing results — but this claim turned out to be a fabrication on multiple levels."You can’t make this stuff up!!" wrote Boebert. "ICE agents show up at airports, and suddenly TSA wait…

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