ICE Steps In at Airports to Free TSA Amid DHS Shutdown
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Amid a DHS funding stalemate and long security lines, Trump says ICE agents will be deployed to airports to relieve TSA by covering entry/exit points so TSA screeners can focus on passenger checks; they won't screen passengers themselves, with details due before Monday. TSA unions criticize the move as replacing paid staff with untrained agents, as more than 400 TSA workers have quit or gone absent during the shutdown.
- Trump says ICE agents will assist airport security as DHS shutdown continues BBC
- ICE to Aid Airport Security Amid Partial Shutdown, Border Czar Says The New York Times
- Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday Politico
- Officials scramble to carry out Trump's directive to have ICE agents conduct airport security CBS News
- The largest federal workers union says 'untrained, armed' ICE agents should not replace TSA Business Insider
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