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Trump Says He Will Send ICE Agents to Airports on Monday

Trump Says He Will Send ICE Agents to Airports on Monday - SLRPNK

> The president issued a threat to deploy ICE agents in an apparent attempt to force Democrats to approve a new budget for the Department of Homeland Security. Access options: * gift link [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/politics/trump-ice-agents-airports.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U1A.qa5P.6ogfUOTVDf-KP] works for about 90% of people; 10% get a registration-wall. You can work around that by using private browsing mode, reader mode, or an archived copy of the article: * archive.today [https://archive.is/l2Gi2] — sometimes modifies archived pagest [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/]

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OwOarchist 6d ago

This could backfire magnificently.

Let the (typically upper-middle class) people in the airport witness and deal with ICE thuggery directly … just before the budgetary debate. Let them see small children arrested, families being torn apart, threats and violence against innocent and non-threatening people just based on how they look. Let them see fascist thugs marching around saying ‘papers, please’ to everyone who isn’t pasty white. Let all those moderately wealthy people with time on their hands make a stink to their congresspeople about what they saw.

It’s going to expose a ton of people to ICE brutality who are normally insulated from this kind of shit. And that’s going to shape opinions at a crucial political time.

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a_non_monotonic_function

Man, I’ve got travel for work. I don’t want to get pistol whipped to prove a point to the other travelers. XD