#ICEAgents at US airports? Will they help or hinder?

Let's separate TSA and #CBP out of #DHS, then get rid of DHS and #ICE!

ICE agents deployed to more than a dozen US airports amid staffing gaps

By David Shepardson
March 23, 2026

WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - "U.S. immigration agents ​began deploying at more than a dozen U.S. airports on Monday to aid security screening as staffing ‌absences by unpaid airport security officers have caused massive delays.

"The Homeland Security Department confirmed it had begun deploying hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to assist in security at airports facing significant staffing issues."

[...]

"For now, ICE personnel will not be deployed in areas behind airport security checkpoints because they lack the specific clearance needed, ‌sources told ⁠Reuters."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-agents-begin-deploying-some-us-airports-2026-03-23/

#USPol #DefundICE #AbolishDHS

😡 FFS! So, now the city has decided to close the shelter?!! Will they open it in a more central location? Or just let unhoused folks freeze to death!!! Way to go, #Maine's biggest city!!! Oh, and the asylum seekers are too afraid to stay there! #FuckICE!!!

'Numbers have certainly declined': #PortlandME to close shelter for #AsylumSeekers [and homeless people who need shelter during freezing temperatures]

by Max Williams, WGME
Wed, March 18, 2026

Excerpt: "The city also needs to develop a gameplan for a #WarmingShelter by next winter, as this location served as the city’s only #OvernightShelter.

"Allicia Santamore has been living on the streets of Portland for eight years and considers the shelter to be a lifeline.

" 'The warming shelter is awesome for people to sit when its six o'clock in the morning and you got no place to go. You can't stay in your tent no more, it’s f------ freezing,' Santamore said.

"The city says they are talking with Maine DHHS about what to do, but they say it all comes down to funding."

Full article:
https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-housing-crisis-numbers-have-certainly-declined-portland-to-close-shelter-for-asylum-seekers-immigration-warming-homelessness

cc: @bob , @sr_rss

#Homeless #MainePol #Houseless #ICESucks #DefundICE

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at #ICE’s largest #DetentionFacility

The emergency calls from a #Texas #immigration #DetentionCenter included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition and emotional distress.

By MORGAN LEE, RYAN J. FOLEY and MICHAEL BIESECKER
Updated 1:18 PM EST, March 6, 2026

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — "The calls to 911 poured in from staff at #CampEastMontana in Texas, the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, at a rate of nearly one a day for five months, each its own tale of pain and despair."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/suicide-ice-detention-centers-b2d1cb0e4b579e0d89caabd00aa04e34

#USPol #HumanRightsViolations #Immigrants #AcquisitionLogics #KenWagner #DefundICE #DefundDHS #AbolishICE #WeKnowWhereYouLive #Fascism