President Trump announced Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be deployed to airports to help clear the horrific security lines of the Transportation Security Administration, which ran out of funding more than a month ago due to the Democrats’ shutdown.
The move is intended to speed up security lines, which have stretched for up to three hours at some airports, as TSA agents walk off work or call in sick because they have not been paid in weeks.
“On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will go to airports to help the amazing TSA agents who have remained on the job despite the fact that Radical Left Democrats, focused solely on protecting hardcore criminals who entered our country illegally, are putting the United States at risk by withholding money that was agreed upon long ago with contracts signed, sealed, and all,” Trump wrote. Social truth.
The president predicted that his decision to send federal immigration agents to airports across the country would face criticism from the left.
“But look, no matter how great a job ICE is doing, the crazy people leading the incompetent Democrats are going to be very critical of their work,” Trump said, stressing that they “are going to do a great job.”
The president added that border czar Tom Homan would be “in charge” of the operation.
Travelers faced security hell last weekend, with wait times on Sunday reaching nearly three hours at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, two hours at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, and more than an hour at JFK Airport in New York.