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, who are facing their second missed paycheck amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, Trump announced Saturday that he would dispatch federal immigration agents to manage growing lines at airports across the country.
ICE officials have been scrambling to meet the president’s demands. White House border czar Tom Homan told CNN’s State of the Union Sunday that ICE agents would assist with security, crowd control, and check IDs, but they would not operate X-ray machines. When asked how planning was going, Homan replied, “How much of a plan does it mean to guard an exit to make sure no one comes through that exit?”
But ICE agents charged with crowd control aren’t off the clock from immigration enforcement.
Republicans privately aren’t thrilled about ICE agents patrolling airport lines, Punchbowl News reported.
“It’s a mess,” another Republican senator told Punchbowl News. “No one is quite sure what’s going on.”
Democrats publicly condemned the decision to dispatch federal immigration agents to help TSA.
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal labeled the decision “one of the biggest potential self-inflicted wounds for this administration.”
Punchbowl News reported, however, that some Democrats are privately thrilled that Trump’s disastrous decision could sow more dissent, as the partial government shutdown drags into its sixth week.
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