{"id":145622,"date":"2026-03-23T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:45:06","slug":"allegheny-county-airport-authority-aware-that-ice-agents-could-soon-help-with-airport-security-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145622\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny County Airport Authority \u2018aware\u2019 that ICE agents could soon help with airport security \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Federal immigration officers could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/national\/ice-agents-will-soon-help-with-airport-security-unless-democrats-end-shutdown-president-trump-says\/5ZTKVLMQHFA3VFEV7IZISLCPXI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/national\/ice-agents-will-soon-help-with-airport-security-unless-democrats-end-shutdown-president-trump-says\/5ZTKVLMQHFA3VFEV7IZISLCPXI\/\">start helping with airport security<\/a> on Monday if a bill is not agreed on to fund the Department of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, \u2018GET READY.\u2019 NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!\u201d Trump wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 reached out to the Allegheny County Airport Authority on Sunday regarding the president\u2019s statements. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Spokesperson Bob Kerlik said the authority is \u201caware of the announcement from the federal government that ICE agents will be deployed to airports across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Those exact plans have not been announced, but ACAA leadership is staying in touch with its federal partners, including the TSA, and local law enforcement, Kerlik said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cSafety and security are always the top priority at airports around the country. We will continue to closely monitor the situation and stay in contact with our law enforcement partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Kerlik added that how federal agencies operate is \u201cnot something that any airport, including ACAA controls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 reached out to DHS for further details and is waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal immigration officers could start helping with airport security on Monday if a bill is not agreed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[66414,66422,66415,66416,66420,66421,66419,66423,73,6845,66413,75,6846,74,66417,66418],"class_list":["post-145622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-airport-ice","tag-airport-tsa","tag-airprot-ice-agents","tag-airprot-tsa","tag-dhs-bill","tag-dhs-funding","tag-dhs-spending","tag-ice-agents-airport-security","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-airport","tag-pittsburgh-airprot-ice","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-tsa-ice-agents","tag-tsa-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}