DHS issues at airports. The evil bastard doubles down.

[Munu]

Trump says he's sending federal immigration agents to airports on Monday amid DHS shutdown (NBC)

President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would send ICE agents to airports around the U.S. on Monday amid an ongoing standoff between Senate Republicans and Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

"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!" he wrote in one of several posts on Truth Social, adding later, "I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, 'GET READY.'"

The move came hours after the president first threatened to move ICE agents to airports, writing in a post on Truth Social earlier Saturday, "If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before."

In the first post, Trump also said ICE agents’ work in airports would include “the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country.”

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[Ms. Toad]

1. Isn't it the Democrats who have repeatedly offered a TSA bill,

And Republicans who have refused to even consider it?

[Igel]

5. Both have offered various bills.

1. (R) a DHS funding bill a few times, all or nothing. Sometimes a majority for it, but not enough to break the filibuster.

2. (D) tried a revised funding bill for all of DHS, if I remember correctly, and it was voted down by a majority, but that was quite a while back before things really broke down.

3. (D) have tried bills that split most of DHS from ICE, and they fail by a majority.

Depending on the source(s) you go to, you only know about 1&2 or 2 & 3. Some sources mention all three, or did (not that (2) is the popular one this month), and continue to mention every TSA-related bill that fails. But if you don't scout out diversity of sources, all you know is either that (D) keep voting to not fund the TSA or that the (R) keep voting not to fund the TSA. And if you have a short memory, you may have forgotten that (2) was even a thing.

[milestogo]

2. ICE is not trained for the TSA job so they will just be in the way

unless they plan to make the line go faster by killing passengers.

[Renew Deal]

3. Doesn't custom already "arrest" "illegal" people at airports?

[BlueNProud]

4. Lol be my guest Donald.

[TommyT139]

6. I bet ICE gets paid waaaaayyy more than TSA

...per hour. Nice use of taxpayer dollars, and a great way to make people loathe ICE even more.

Meanwhile...

20 US airports don’t have TSA. Passengers there are not seeing long lines.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/us/airports-without-tsa

[themaguffin]

7. This doesn't help him like he thinks that it does

[Liberal In Texas]

8. Asinine. ICE is his own personal secret police.

To go wherever he wants them. Airports now. Polling stations on election day.
Are they going to stand around like masked goons at the checkpoints with their AR-15s (or whatever) and pepper spray anybody who doesn't remove their shoes fast enough.