"On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job. 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."
"It's a work in progress. But we will be at airports tomorrow helping TSA move those lines along. I don't see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine because they're not trained in that."
"They know how to run the X-ray machine. There are certain parts of security that TSA is doing that we can move them off those jobs and put them in the specialized jobs, help move those lines."
President Trump announced the deployment of ICE agents to U.S. airports to assist TSA workers facing delays due to the government shutdown. The shutdown has affected paychecks for TSA employees, leading to significant staffing shortages. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized the deployment, expressing concerns about the potential risks to travelers. Tom Homan, the White House border czar, stated that ICE agents would help alleviate TSA duties but clarified that they are not trained for certain security tasks. The exact roles of ICE agents at airports remain uncertain.
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