Trump said ICE agents’ work in airports would include “the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country.”
On Saturday, The Fascist Felon and possible child rapist said he would send ICE agents to airports around the U.S. starting on Monday.
“If the Democrats do not allow for Just and Proper Security at our Airports, and elsewhere throughout our Country, ICE will do the job far better than ever done before!” he wrote in one of several posts on Truth Social, adding later, “I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, ‘GET READY.'”
His comments come as Senate Republicans on Saturday blocked a Democratic effort to pass a stand-alone bill to fund TSA in a 41-49 vote and a day after Senate Democrats voted down Republicans’ efforts to pass a bill to fully fund DHS, which has been partially shut down since mid-February.
Following the rare Saturday vote, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a key negotiator for Democrats on making a deal to end the partial shutdown, accused Republicans of tying TSA funding to ICE funding.
The shutdown has led Transportation Security Administration officers who conduct security checks at U.S. airports to go unpaid, leading to callouts en masse and lengthy security lines at airports across the country.
Jeffries: "The last thing the American people need is 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."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 22, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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