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 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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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…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been deployed to US airports to assist TSA during the partial government shutdown.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday threatened to arrest agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deployed to the city’s airport to help with security amid Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staffing shortages. “This is how it works. You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of…
Philadelphia County District Attorney Lawrence Krasner was slammed after he brazenly threatened to arrest and jail ICE agents at airports -- warning that even a pardon from President Trump wouldn't protect them.
Despite an appreciable impact on wait times, ICE agents deployed to airports still had to contend with their usual radical hangers-on — without the benefit of masks.…
