Trump says ICE agents will deploy to U.S. airports Monday

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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, Transportation Security Administration 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.By Sunday, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that ICE would indeed deploy to airports beginning Monday.

White House border advisor Tom Homan provided additional details earlier in the day during a televised interview, saying that U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to dispatch agents to airports 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 airports tomorrow helping TSA move those lines along.” World & Nation President Trump says he’ll order federal immigration officers to take a role soon in airport security unless Democrats agree on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.Homan stressed that ICE agents would provide support where possible, so that TSA staffers could better fulfill specialized positions.“I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine, because they are not trained in that,” Homan said.But communication about how exactly this plan would work has been spotty.The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents TSA officers, has not received any communication from Homeland Security on this issue and first learned about it in Trump’s Truth Social post, as well as through the press, said Jacqueline Simon, the union’s policy director.Dispatching ICE agents to airports d...