Is ICE coming to Houston airports? Agents expected at 14 airports across the country Monday as long TSA lines continue at IAH

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Long security lines continue at airports across the country.

At Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, the TSA line wait time reached 220 minutes at some points on Sunday.

TSA agents have either quit or called out sick over the past couple of weeks as they continue to work without pay due to the partial government shutdown.

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Multiple sources told ABC News that ICE agents will be deployed to 14 airports across the country, but it’s still unclear whether Houston-area airports are included.

“If we can bring in other assets and tools to assist TSA to get rid of these lines, yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in an interview with ABC News.

TSA saw the highest call-out rate of TSA officers at airports on Saturday, about 11.5% of the scheduled workforce, according to TSA data obtained by ABC News.

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On Sunday, George Bush Intercontinental Airport posted on X that CLEAR will not operate on Monday and that TSA PreCheck will only be available in Terminals A, C, and E and will close at 10:30 a.m.

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