Officials scramble to carry out Trump’s directive to have ICE agents conduct airport security

Officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been scrambling to carry out a weekend directive from President Trump to have immigration agents provide security at airports amid the partial government shutdown, multiple sources familiar with the internal deliberations told CBS News. On Saturday, Mr. Trump posted a message on Truth Social suggesting he would deploy ICE … Read more

Schumer knocks Trump on Iran, plan to send ICE to airports: ‘Asking for trouble’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., condemned President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. airports on Sunday. Schumer made the comments while speaking on the Senate floor Sunday, saying Trump’s decision is “impulsive” and could make the situation at … Read more

Trump mocks ‘discombobulated’ Schumer over Democrats’ near gaffe on funding ICE

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump mocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for a near gaffe Saturday on the Senate floor. “Schumer got ‘discombobulated’ in the Senate yesterday, and said, ‘WE MUST FUND ICE,’ prior to correcting himself,” Trump wrote Sunday morning on Truth Social. “Thank you Chuck, I … Read more

Tom Homan says ICE agents will assist at crowded airport security points amid TSA staffing shortages

The shutdown, which began when lawmakers in the Senate failed to reach an agreement to fund DHS, has led TSA agents to call out or quit en mass as they’ve gone without paychecks for weeks. More than 400 TSA agents across the country have quit since the shutdown began. In a separate interview Sunday on … Read more

Trump says ICE will deploy to airports Monday to assist TSA amid funding standoff

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will begin assisting TSA agents at airports across the country on Monday, President Donald Trump says. The move comes as Trump and Republicans battle with Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. “On Monday, ICE will be going to … Read more

Trump threatens to send ICE agents to airports amid TSA travel chaos

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Thune, GOP blast Dems in DHS standoff as Lankford says they fear ICE over Iran

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., accused Senate Democrats of not having “any excuses” to continue blocking Homeland Security funding as Republicans and the White House continue to make repeated offers to reopen the government. “The opportunity to actually drive this to a conclusion is there,” Thune … Read more

Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports amid funding fight, vows arrests of illegal aliens

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump warned he could send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. airports and arrest illegal aliens if Democrats don’t agree to his budget demands to end the partial government shutdown. ‘‘If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our … Read more

Children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention

The boy in the grainy video feed sounded desperate. “I don’t want to be here anymore,” he said. “Nothing is good here.” Since early March, 9-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez had been held with his parents at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where children have complained of limited education, lights that never turn … Read more

DHS shutdown blows past one-month mark as Dems push to carve out ICE from any new funding deal

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As a partial government shutdown blows past the one-month mark, Democrats are demanding lawmakers shrink the size of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) funding lapse — while leaving out the agency at the heart of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in their view, … Read more