Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Assist TSA at US Airports
22nd March 2026
President Donald Trump said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be sent to U.S. airports beginning Monday to assist Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said ICE would support TSA agents who have continued working during a partial government shutdown. He had also warned a day earlier that he would deploy ICE officers to airports if congressional Democrats did not agree to fund airport security.
Tom Homan, the White House border czar, confirmed the planned deployment, describing it as an effort to address long security lines during a busy travel period. Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Homan said ICE agents would help TSA manage passenger flow as staffing shortages have increased amid the shutdown, during which many TSA employees are working without pay.
The logic of government is, that if getting on an airplane requires TSA screening, and you don’t have enough TSA screeners, that doesn’t mean you can get on without screening (God forbid); it means you have to wait hours in long lines in order to be screened by however few may actually be available.
Democrats, knowing that this sort of bureaucratic bottleneck was impassible, are using their holdup of DHS funding to cause the maximum inconvenience to people who ordinarily don’t give a shit about politics but just want to get on the damned plane. Such people, unaware of the actual issues involved, whine to their elected representatives to JUST GET SOMETHING DONE, which works out to eventually requiring greasing the squeaky wheel of Democrat intransigence.
Trump, who is smarter than you and me in these matters, has brought his BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR stamp and is busily impressing it on the foreheads of the Democrats in Congress: Okay, if we need more screeners and Democrats won’t pay for it, then we’ll use ICE and put them there and (oh, by the way) arrest any illegal immigrants we may come across in the process. This puts Democrats in a cleft stick and uses them to play Lacrosse.
I really love this guy.