ICE is not at airports to "help."
If you actually listen to Trump and his allies, it's clear the goal is to make a bad situation worse.
The good news? It's already backfiring.
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/25/ice-at-airports-trumps-troll-move-backfires/
@AmandaMarcotte
I’ll put this article in the “wishful thinking” category.
I just sent my son to Tokyo from the Minneapolis airport Monday morning. We saw few ICE agents. The lines were actually the same as always: very reasonable.
The airports with the longest lines - and there aren’t as many as the press makes it out to be - already had issues (Newark) or are in deep red country (Houston).
Also worth noting - a huge MAJORITY of people don’t step foot in an airport during any given year.
ICE isn't deployed at the Minneapolis airport, it's only a dozen or so airports that have been targeted by them.
@darwinwoodka @AmandaMarcotte
OK. That even proves my point further. A very small part of the population is affected.
I'm just tired of certain media taking victory laps when they aren't warranted. This is not the thing we are looking for. The Salon article is lazy. It's a puff opinion piece.
The thing that Democrats need at this point is a message. We can't cross our fingers and hope that ICE pisses off the marginal voter at 1 of 12 airports.
That's why we have Warnock
@[email protected]: “ICE has more funding than the Marines. And Republicans are saying ‘if you don’t give this overgrown paramilitary force of masked agents more money, we’re going to leave TSA workers unpaid.’” 🤔
The message that is printed in magazines and reaching the population is, "The ICE deployment to airports has backfired and is annoying the average voter."
Whatever Warnock is saying - even when I 100% agree - isn't in that article.
Again - you are just highlighting the problem I am sharing here: lazy analysis by a Salon writer that has an incorrect conclusion and zero percent real messaging by Democrats.
THIS is the story.
And the Democrats - for all of Warnock's flowery prose - are going to take at least some of the blame where those long lines exist. No amount of hopeful "stories" (because Salon's puff piece does not qualify as journalism) is going to help.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/tsa-airport-security-quit-shutdown
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