{"id":233652,"date":"2026-03-24T04:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/233652\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:30:25","slug":"sacramento-airport-has-no-plans-to-use-ice-smf-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/233652\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento airport has ‘no plans to use ICE,’ SMF officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Abridged version:<\/p>\n

Sacramento International Airport released a statement Monday morning, saying that it is not expecting federal immigration authorities in its airport security lines.<\/p>\n

Federal immigration officers are expected to appear in airports across the country starting Monday, amid the partial federal shutdown.<\/p>\n

Federal immigration officers are anticipated to be deployed to airports across the country starting this week, but Sacramento International Airport does not appear to be among them.<\/p>\n

In reaction to the partial shutdown of the federal government, over the weekend President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a role in airport security. ICE is anticipated in at least 14 different airports, including Atlanta, two in New York, New Orleans, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Phoenix and Fort Myers, Florida, Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SMF officials released a statement Monday morning that ICE is not expected to have a presence at the airport.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of Monday morning, there are currently no plans to use ICE to support TSA at SMF,\u201d the news release stated.<\/p>\n

\"PeopleVisitors ride the escalator in Terminal B at Sacramento International Airport in November 2025. (Martin Christian) <\/p>\n

While callout rates among airport security staff have led to hours-long wait times at some airports, SMF is not currently experiencing significant delays, according to the release.<\/p>\n

\u201cStaffing callouts have remained minimal, and security wait times are staying consistent with what they were prior to the shutdown,\u201d the airport stated. <\/p>\n

Felicia Alvarez\u00a0is a reporter at Abridged covering accountability.\u00a0She\u2019s\u00a0called Sacramento home since 2015 and has reported on government, health\u00a0care\u00a0and breaking news topics for both local and national news outlets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abridged version: Sacramento International Airport released a statement Monday morning, saying that it is not expecting federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,65250,10540],"class_list":["post-233652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-secondary-highlight","tag-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233652","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=233652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}