President Donald Trump\u2019s move to send ICE agents to other large U.S. airports<\/a>, the incident sparked alarm and criticism Monday from local leaders.<\/p>\nThe partial shutdown has not affected security lines at SFO, because the airport contracts out its services to a private company. TSA directly employs agents at the Oakland San Francisco Bay and San Jose Mineta International airports, but they, along with SFO, did not report higher-than-usual wait times Monday. Officials at all three airports said they had not fielded any reports of ICE agents at their facilities Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand federal officers were transporting two individuals on the outbound flight when this incident occurred,\u201d airport spokesperson Doug Yakel said in an email. \u201cWe believe this is an isolated incident and have no reason to suspect broader enforcement action at SFO.\u201d<\/p>\n
Democratic Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Congressman Kevin Mullin, D-SF,\u00a0 in a joint statement called the arrest \u201cheartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
ICE did not immediately comment on the arrest or the presence of its agents at airports.\n<\/p>\n
On Monday, agents began to deploy to airports in other parts of the nation, with media outlets reporting sightings at airports in New York, New Jersey, Texas and Louisiana.. The move came amid massive absences of Transportation Security Administration officials and hours-long security lines at some airports caused by a partial government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security..<\/p>\n
The arrest at SFO came before the deployment began.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe airport\u2019s role is to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the facility for all passengers and staff,\u201d Yakel said of the arrest. \u201cWe were not involved in or notified in advance of this incident. Airport operations continued without disruption, and there was no impact to flights or passenger processing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several people at the airport captured the arrest on video, which circulated on social media. Multiple videos showed a woman traveling with another younger female and ICE agents dragging her away as bystanders yell insults at the agents.\n<\/p>\n
On the video, neither of the two men detaining the woman appear to be wearing or displaying any visible identification as police of any kind.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe video of a mother being aggressively detained by ICE agents in front of her daughter at the San Francisco International Airport is yet another heartbreaking example of how Trump\u2019s inhumane immigration enforcement is terrorizing communities across America,\u201d Pelosi and Mullin said in their statement. \u201cAfter killing people in our streets and detaining U.S. citizens, ICE has lost all credibility and trust with the public. We demand answers as to the mother\u2019s and her child\u2019s condition and the grounds for their detainment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another video shows agents putting the woman into handcuffs as a young girl nearby cries.<\/p>\n
It was not clear why the woman was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, wrote on social media that \u201cICE was at SFO (Sunday) night, terrorizing a mother while her daughter watched. So much for the \u2018hey we\u2019re sending ICE to airports to fill in for TSA\u2019 BS.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yakel said SFO participates in the Screening Partnership Program, which contracts out security services to a qualified private company. Screeners at the airport have continued to be paid during the partial shutdown, and Yakel said the airport has not seen excessive lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A high-profile arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at San Francisco International Airport on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[76035,2871,101,103,603,102,104,106,105,16189],"class_list":["post-233085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-agents","tag-ice","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-international-airport","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-woman-arrested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}