Donald Trump deliberately tanked a bipartisan funding deal that would have kept the government open and TSA agents paid, deploying ICE into airports across the country instead. While the security workers who keep travelers safe go without a paycheck, Trump is flooding those same airports with an unaccountable paramilitary force operating under no clear mandate. It’s chaos by design, and the same Trump playbook: manufacture a crisis, exploit the disorder, and leave working Americans to pay the price. Read more about how Trump is injecting chaos into America’s airports:
HEADLINES
- Fortune: Federal workers union: ICE agents are ‘not trained or certified’ to replace TSA agents
- USA Today: Travelers say ICE at airports isn’t helping long security lines
- TIME: “An Insult to Us”: TSA Agents Slam ICE Arrival at U.S. Airports
- Politico: ‘The pressure is untenable’: Trump’s deployment of ICE agents to airports ramps up shutdown fight
- Washington Post: Long lines persist at some U.S. airports despite arrival of ICE officers
- Associated Press: ICE officers go to TSA checkpoints at Trump’s direction, while long wait times at airports persist
- The Handbasket: Airports on ICE
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