ICE Agents Deployed To U.S. Airports As TSA Agents Continue To Quit, Delays Reach New Lengths

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job," Trump posted.
61% : "I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to 'GET READY.'
58% : NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!" Leaders of metro cities across the country confirmed ICE's presence, like Atlanta's Mayor Andre Dickens.
56% : The administration blamed the Democratic Party for making ICE's presence necessary in the first place.
56% : "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!"
52% : Given ICE's recent history, there is also concern that its presence may instill fear.
50% : "ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security," he said.
47% : "Again, ICE has been in airports a long time; it's just expanding the same," he said.
42% : " However, in a statement, Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said ICE has no business assisting agents, because the job is more than just checking IDs; agents spend months being trained to detect explosives, weapons, and threats designed to evade checkpoint detection.
41% : Amid a battle between Democrats and Republicans over funding the Department of Homeland Security and securing pay for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers during the ongoing partial government shutdown, the Trump administration has decided to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to assist, according to NPR.
39% : "The last thing that 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," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said.

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