Pirate's Cove

Every problem has a solution, and, if Democrats want to keep playing games in refusing to fund DHS because they hate ICE and all immigration enforcement, well, Trump and his people will find solutions they never considered doing in Washington

Trump threatens to send ICE to airports amid DHS standoff

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send federal immigration agents to airports across the country on Monday if Democrats don’t agree to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, now approaching five weeks.

“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, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country,” he wrote.

“Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia” would be targeted with an especially firm hand, the president wrote on Truth Social.

“I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, ‘GET READY.’ NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!” he wrote in a separate Truth Social post on Saturday.

Obviously, this has caused a massive meltdown with the Democrat part, because, Orange Man Bad, and, really, Trump will do this. I really wouldn’t be surprised if ICE and other immigration officials started showing up at airports by Wednesday.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the Senate Appropriations Committee vice chair, mocked the plan.

“Oh yeah, I’m sure the next thing the American people want after long lines at TSA is to get wrongfully detained, beat up, and harassed by ICE,” Murray wrote in a post on X. “No blank check for ICE. We need reform & accountability. In the meantime, how about you tell Republicans to just vote to pay TSA.”

I love how Patty has denigrated everyone who works for ICE, and thinks they give a crap about detaining Americans. They’d prefer not to, except, the Democrat base loves to interfere with law enforcement.

(NY Times) Mr. Trump wrote that the ICE agents staffing airports would also conduct aggressive immigration operations, in what would be an escalation of immigration enforcement tactics for an agency already under scrutiny for what critics in both parties say is a heavy-handed approach.

The president said that their duties would also include “the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia,” continuing his attack on a population he has disparaged in defense of his contentious immigration operation in Minnesota. Two U.S. citizens protesting the operations were killed by federal agents.

Of course, they really wouldn’t necessarily have time to bust illegals if they’re helping get people through TSA checkpoints or doing other TSA things. But, the very threat of ICE being there to illegals would keep them away from airports.