Trump does NOT WANT ICE people at airports wearing masks, which seems to confirm the mask wearing could be over when the Homeland Budget finally gets settled….
The ICE people seem to be starting off just walking around screening area’s making traveler’s a bit uncomfortable?..
President Trump called on ICE agents deploying to U.S. airports to not wear masks as they help with security operations to ease long lines and wait times. Trump wrote in a social media post on Monday that he was a “BIG proponent of ICE wearing masks as they search for, and are forced to deal with, hardened criminals,” but that he would “greatly appreciate” that agents wear “NO MASKS” while deployed to airports. He also again blamed Democrats for the funding standoff…..
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The ICE agents now being deployed to airports are at the center of the funding standoff over the Department of Homeland Security that is making their presence necessary. Aggressive tactics they employed in places including Minnesota, where two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by federal agents, prompted Democrats in Congress to demanded limits in return for any deal to fund the department.
Although the ICE agents and the Transportation Security Administration personnel they are working alongside are part of the same department, the ICE agents are getting paid while the T.S.A. agents are not. That’s because Congress appropriated tens of billions of dollars last year to support President Trump’s immigration agenda….
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Unmasked ICE agents have been deployed at major airports across the country Monday — and they’re already being hounded by flyers and photographers.
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The airports where ICE has been deployed on Monday include Atlanta, Chicago O’Hare, Cleveland, Houston Hobby, Fort Myers, New Orleans, New York JFK, New York LaGuardia, Newark Liberty, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and San Juan in Puerto Rico.
Over the weekend, TSA screener absences reached their highest level since the partial shutdown began five weeks ago, according to the DHS.
image …Federal immigration agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Monday.Credit…Vincent Alban/The New York Times
Atta Boy!
Scare Democrats like scaring Iran by scaring the public?
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) shared the video, saying it showed the risks of having ICE officers at airports.
“ICE is not at airports to help TSA and reduce lines. They are there (without identification) trying to arrest people, exactly as I predicted,” he wrote on X.
Republicans, including Trump, said the deployment was designed to make Democrats go “crazy” as the parties are in a standoff over how to fund the DHS.
“That’s why the Democrats are going crazy,” Trump said Monday morning, citing his dispatching of ICE.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) also backed the move as a pressure tactic for negotiations.
“I’m glad the president has put ICE in there for a multitude of reasons. It’ll drive the Democrats crazy,” he said during an appearance Monday on Fox Business Network.
Democrats have previously tried to separate TSA funding from the broader battle over ICE, seeking to fund the airport security agency while discussions continue…..
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