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Trump threatens to send ICE to airports on Monday amid DHS funding standoff (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to deploy federal immigration agents to US airports on Monday if Democrats do not agree to measures aimed at strengthening security and immigration enforcement.

“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,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Airport security is currently handled by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), while ICE handles immigration enforcement. Both are under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ICE has been a pillar of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, drawing criticism from Democrats, civil liberties advocates and immigration advocacy groups.

Trump added that ICE “will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our country” and pointed to a “heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, who have totally destroyed, with the approval of a corrupt Governor, Attorney General, and Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, the once Great State of Minnesota”.

I hate even platforming his verbal diarrhea, but this is what we've ended up with.

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So he's going to use ICE to assist the TSA and speed up security checkpoints at airports..?

I'm confused. Is that his threat? ICE is definitely underqualified for the job and is almost certainly going to discriminate on appearance and ID doc, but TSA already does that.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

"Underqualified" is an ATS requirement under this junta.