President Donald Trump mentioned Saturday he’ll deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to US airports on Monday if an settlement isn’t reached to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid a partial authorities shutdown.
“If the Democrats do not allow for Just and Proper Security at our Airports, and elsewhere throughout our Country, ICE will do the job far better than ever done before!” the president wrote on Truth Social Saturday afternoon. “I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, ‘GET READY.’ NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!”
It is unclear what operate the ICE agents would carry out since they’re not educated in airport safety screening. NCS has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security.
The risk comes as a weekslong stalemate over DHS funding has led to disruptions at airports throughout the nation, with Transportation Security Administration staff going with out pay, and staffing shortages contributing to delays. Lawmakers from each events have been working to attain an settlement to reopen the division, however a decision stays unsure.
Trump prompt in an earlier Truth Social put up on Saturday that the ICE agents would “do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia.”