{"id":205063,"date":"2026-03-23T07:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ice-agents-will-be-deployed-to-us-airports-on-monday-to-ease-long-lines-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:37:35","slug":"ice-agents-will-be-deployed-to-us-airports-on-monday-to-ease-long-lines-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ice-agents-will-be-deployed-to-us-airports-on-monday-to-ease-long-lines-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agents will be deployed to US airports on Monday to ease long lines – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump and border czar Tom Homan confirm plan to assist TSA agents amid partial government shutdown standoff
Donald Trump<\/a> and his border czar, Tom Homan, have confirmed that the president\u2019s administration is sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to US airports beginning on Monday to assist with security amid extremely long lines \u2013 and to help airport security agents who have been working without pay since 14 February because of a partial government shutdown.
Homan will lead the effort, Trump said on Sunday.
In a post on Truth Social<\/a>, Trump said \u201cICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful [Transportation Security Administration] Agents who have stayed on the job despite\u201d the shutdown resulting from a US Senate deadlock<\/a> over stricter regulations on federal immigration enforcement.
Homan, meanwhile, appeared on CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday and said: \u201cWe will be at the airports tomorrow.\u201d It remained unclear what responsibilities ICE officers will have, and Homan said on Sunday that details were still being finalized.
\u201cThere\u2019s TSA agents covering exits. People that enter through the exits. Certainly a highly trained ICE law enforcement officer can cover an exit, make sure people don\u2019t go through those exits, enter an airport through the exits,\u201d he said on CNN.
\u201cStuff like that relieves that TSA officer to go to screening and to reduce those lines. I don\u2019t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine because they\u2019re not trained in that. There\u2019s certain parts of security that TSA\u2019s doing that we can move them off those jobs and put them in the specialized jobs and help them move those lines.\u201d
More than 400 TSA agents have left their jobs since the partial government shutdown began, according to NBC News<\/a>, and others are calling out sick. There have been crippling, hours-long waits at security checkpoints run by the TSA across the US.
Images showed lines out to the parking lot at New Orleans\u2019 airport on Sunday and at New York\u2019s LaGuardia airport earlier in the weekend.
\u201cIt\u2019s a work in progress,\u201d Homan said of the plan. The priority, he said, was \u201cthe large airports where there\u2019s a long wait, like three hours\u201d.<\/strong>
Homan pledged to have \u201ca plan by the end of today, where we\u2019re sending \u2013 what airports we\u2019re starting with and where we\u2019re sending them\u201d.
Senate Democrats have blocked<\/a> funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the TSA, seeking reforms after immigration agents killed US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in separate incidents in January.
Pressed by CNN\u2019s Dana Bash on how well thought out the plan could be if it was still being finalized on Sunday, Homan said: \u201cHow much of a plan does it mean [sic] to guard an exit to make sure no one comes through an exit?\u201d
Trump had said on Saturday that ICE agents at airports would \u201cdo security like no one has ever seen before\u201d.
\u201cBad idea,\u201d said Lisa Murkowski, a senator from Alaska, about the new airport security plan.
\u201cWhat we need to do is, we need to get the DHS issues resolved, we need to get the TSA agents paid,\u201d she told reporters at the US Capitol, where the Senate held a rare weekend session. \u201cDo you really want to have even additional tensions on top of what we are already facing?\u201d
The Trump administration has deployed ICE agents for immigration crackdowns across the country, a move that \u2013 in addition to the killings of US citizens<\/a> \u2013 has led to civil rights violations<\/a>.
The US House\u2019s Democratic minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, came out strongly against ICE agents at airports in his own appearance on CNN.
\u201cThe last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cWe have already seen how ICE conducts itself.\u201d
Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 50,000 TSA workers, condemned Trump\u2019s plan, saying in a statement that ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security.
\u201cOur members at TSA have been showing up every day, without a paycheck, because they believe in the mission of keeping the flying public safe,\u201d Kelley said on Sunday. \u201cThey deserve to be paid, not replaced by untrained, armed agents who have shown how dangerous they can be.\u201d
A joint statement from US flight attendant unions criticized what they portrayed as the failure to pay TSA workers and the choice \u201cto create havoc in our airports\u201d.
\u201cThis latest threat of ICE invasion at the airports is another distraction from solutions that protect Americans,\u201d the statement continued.
\u201cFlight attendants will not allow the TSA \u2026 and the frontline [security officers] who keep us safe to be used as pawns in this dangerous game, nor will we fly in an aviation system that doesn\u2019t put our safety and security first.\u201d<\/p>\n

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