Socialites, come get a load of this: Starting Monday, Donald Trump says he’s rolling out ICE agents to airports all across the country. Why? Well he says they will be there to “help” TSA who are working without pay since mid-February while this government shutdown drags on.
As previously reported, TSA workers, about 50,000 of them, have been holding it down with no checks coming in, ever since the Department of Homeland Security partially shut down on February 14. This whole standoff popped off after Democrats refused to fund things without changes to immigration enforcement, especially after those heartbreaking shootings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier this year.
Trump hopped on Truth Social and said ICE agents will be stepping in to support TSA officers “who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard line criminals who have entered our Country illegally, are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all.”
He followed that up saying “no matter how great a job ICE does, the Lunatics leading the incompetent Dems will be highly critical of their work. THEY WILL DO A FANTASTIC JOB.”
Okay… but here’s where it really takes a turn.
Just hours before, he had already started hinting at this move, posting, “I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before,” Trump wrote in his first Truth Social post.
According to Trump, these ICE agents won’t just be assisting, they’ll be actively arresting undocumented immigrants right there in the airport. Like… imagine trying to catch your flight and now there’s a whole immigration enforcement situation happening at the gate?
“I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, ‘GET READY.’ NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!”
Tom Homan is reportedly the one in charge of making this all happen, coordinating where these agents go and how this plays out nationwide.