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ICE Agents Replacing TSA At Airports Starting Monday🎬


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Tomorrow morning β€” Monday March 23 β€” ICE agents

will deploy to U.S. airports across the country.

Not TSA agents. Not security professionals.

Immigration enforcement officers with zero

airport security training.

And it all started because Trump couldn't

get Democrats to fund his own Department

of Homeland Security.

⚑ HOW WE GOT HERE β€” IN 72 HOURS:

βœ… A partial government shutdown has left TSA

workers going without pay for weeks

βœ… Spring break travel is in full swing β€” with

hour-long security lines at Atlanta and Houston

airports β€” and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

warned: "If a deal isn't cut, you're going to see

what's happening today look like child's play"

βœ… Smaller airports could shut down entirely

due to staffing shortages

βœ… Saturday β€” Trump posted on Truth Social:

"I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE

Agents to the Airports where they will do

Security like no one has ever seen before"

βœ… Trump specifically singled out Somali immigrants

for arrest β€” writing the deployment would include

"heavy emphasis on those from Somalia"

βœ… Sunday β€” Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed:

ICE agents will help TSA "move those lines"

while also enforcing immigration law

βœ… Monday β€” They arrive

πŸ›‘οΈ THE PROBLEM NOBODY IS SAYING LOUDLY ENOUGH:

ICE agents are not trained in airport security.

Not even close.

What it takes to be a TSA officer β€” a certified

officer able to do screening β€” takes weeks and

months of training. The president can have them

come there but nobody sees how that helps get

through this time period.

If you bring people in there who are not trained

and don't know what they're looking for β€”

then certainly it could be a problem.

Translation: The people replacing your airport

security tomorrow cannot do airport security.

But they CAN arrest you.

🎯 WHAT ICE AGENTS WILL ACTUALLY BE DOING:

βœ… Managing lines and directing passengers

β€” roles requiring zero screening training

βœ… Enforcing immigration law on travelers

passing through security checkpoints

βœ… Specifically targeting undocumented immigrants

β€” with "heavy emphasis on those from Somalia"

βœ… Operating under Tom Homan's direct command

πŸ“Œ What this means for YOU at the airport tomorrow:

β€” Longer lines, not shorter

β€” Immigration enforcement at security checkpoints

β€” Untrained agents making security decisions

β€” No guarantee of when this ends

πŸ’° AND THEN THERE'S ELON:

Elon Musk offered to cover the paychecks of

TSA workers during the shutdown β€” the

same man whose DOGE cuts helped CREATE

the staffing crisis in the first place.

The arsonist offering to bring water.

πŸ€” THE BIGGER QUESTION:

Trump created a government shutdown.

The shutdown starved TSA of funding.

TSA lines became catastrophically long.

Trump used the chaos to deploy ICE to airports.

ICE will now enforce immigration law at checkpoints.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner said Trump's

word is "worthless" and that the threat is

"one more reason why we've got to get

TSA funded."

Even Republican Sen. John Thune said he hopes

a deal can be reached so that ICE at airports

"ideally wouldn't be necessary."

Was this the plan all along?

πŸ‘‡ Are you flying this week?

Drop your take in the comments.

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Political DrainBy Drill Sgt Doug