Nonilex

#Trump threatens to deploy #ICE to airports as #TSA shortages drive delays

In a post to Truth Social, Trump said the ICE agents would “do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia.”


#law #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #racism #unfit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/21/trump-threatens-deploy-ice-airports-tsa-shortages-drive-delays/

Trump says he will deploy ICE to airports as TSA shortages drive delays

Border czar Tom Homan said ICE agents will be at airports to help TSA agents, but he does not expect they will do specialized tasks, such as X-ray screening.

The Washington Post
Mar 21 at 6:15pmWeb
Show threadNonilexMar 21

Deploying agents to checkpoints nationwide would mark an unprecedented expansion of #immigration enforcement even as #Democrats push for tighter limits on how those agents operate, citing concerns the #Trump admin has shortened training to expand #ICE ranks.

#law #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #racism #unfit

Show threadmarkMar 21
@Nonilex he mentions Somalia, and he is still pissed at Minneapolis. This scares me that a new strategy can be to put ice agents in a place where people can't embarrass them and protest.
Show threadcognitively accessible mathMar 21
@Nonilex THese are babbling raves. Like, ask him something about which airports he'd focus on and let's watch him *not be able to answer.*
Show threadFurballsNHairballsMar 21
@Nonilex
Can someone shut him up??? Even for just 10 minutes?
Show thread3Jane Tessier AshpoolMar 21
@Nonilex so now he wants to make airlines mad too, cool cool
Show threadRandall LeeMar 21
@Nonilex terrorists at airports will surely improve his poll numbers
Show threadLightfighterMar 21
@Nonilex Don't threaten us with a good time. The more standing around blue barrels in airports, the fewer on the streets.
Show threadPassengerMar 21

@Nonilex

Due to ICE staff shortages, a number of the agents sent to Minneapolis were allegedly just hastily-rebadged marshals, TSA screeners, and anyone else in the DHS agencies who volunteered.

Using TSA to fill in ICE ranks, then using ICE to fill in TSA ranks. They just don't have enough brownshirts to do all the authoritarianism they want to do.

I wonder if they know? Like, I wonder if Trump's inner circle understand that staffing is an issue, or are they the sort who train themselves not to even think thoughts that the boss might dislike?

Show threadRobert HMar 21

@passenger @Nonilex

One should secretly cheer for this bone-headed move, using #ICE agents to do #TSA work.

First, it will take ICE agents off the streets of our cities.

Second, it would allow millions of travelling Americans to observe ICE up close and decide if they still like them.

Show threadPassengerMar 22

@Stinson_108

As Bonaparte said, never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.

Show threadPeter BrownMar 21
@Nonilex nobody can get on an aircraft or a ship without a visa for the country of arrival. So I am completely at a loss to understand how Border control can possibly be speaking to “illegal immigrants”.
Show threadoscarfalconMar 21

@Nonilex

...aaaaand watch the tourism industry disappear! piling shit on top of shit and flinging shit is the only thing the orange menace knows, FFS!