Pirate's Cove

Well, that was quick. I wonder if there were already plans to do this in motion before Trump said anything

Trump border advisor says ICE to deploy to U.S. airports Monday

What began as a social media post from President Trump on Saturday has grown quickly into a full-scale plan to deploy ICE agents to U.S. airports.

Amid a partial government shutdown, TSA lines have grown to be hours long at some U.S. airports, creating problems for travelers across the country. Call-out rates have started to increase at some airports, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said at least 376 TSA agents have quit since the partial shutdown began Feb. 14.

White House border advisor Tom Homan said that ICE plans to dispatch agents to airports as soon as Monday, and that he was working with other officials to determine where to send agents.

“It’s a work in progress,” Homan said during a Sunday appearance on CNN. “But we will be at the airports tomorrow helping TSA move those lines along.”

Homan stressed that ICE agents would provide support where possible, so that TSA staffers could better fulfill specialized positions.

Basically, ICE agents will be doing things like guarding exits, roving patrols, and other non-specialized duties that allows TSA to do the specialized duties like x-ray machines, scanners, reading IDs in screening, and so forth. Many ICE and other immigration agents have already been working in airports. Anyhow, Democrats are not taking this well, as you’d imagine

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a statement that read, “Masked, armed police at travel checkpoints is a hallmark of dystopian movies. Now, Donald Trump is threatening to bring this tool of fascism to America. He is manufacturing chaos at airports for political leverage and trying to force Democrats to accept unaccountable secret police at security checkpoints around the country.”

It’d be funny if ICE and any others simply wore TSA uniforms, or ones that said “Police”. If Bennie’s constituents weren’t unhinged, and violent, tools masks would not be a problem.

Also speaking to CNN on Sunday, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, “The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or, in some instances, kill them. We’ve already seen how ICE conducts itself.”

It’s great how Democrats paint all ICE agents with one broad, demonizing brush, eh? I wonder if it’s possible to sue for defamation? Perhaps Democrats could simply vote to fund DHS, instead of trying to protect illegal aliens and get rid of ICE, border security, and so forth. What happens if this works and airports get back to normal? What then? Expect all sorts of wacko Democrats to show up at the airports who aren’t taking flights and be a nuisance.