{"id":219966,"date":"2026-03-25T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:26:08","slug":"flyers-face-4-hour-security-lines-at-houston-airport-amid-tsa-staff-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219966\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers Face 4-Hour Security Lines at Houston Airport Amid TSA Staff Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Security lines snaked in and out of a Houston airport on Tuesday, March 24, as airports across the country faced shortages in Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff members amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/03\/23\/ice-joins-tsa-msy-shutdown-chaos-triggers-five-hour-airport-arrivals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:partial government shutdown;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;partial government shutdown&quot;}\" class=\"link \">partial government shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage was captured at George Bush Intercontinental Airport by Eliza Rose, who said that she was waiting over four hours to get through airport security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/ice-agents-houston-airport-bush-hobby\/285-99f6dfd5-0bba-4f51-829d-201e3b930692\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:recently spotted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;recently spotted&quot;}\" class=\"link \">recently spotted<\/a> at the airport, after President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116268396341038197\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> agents were to be deployed at airports across the country to assist with security checks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ICE personnel were deployed at more than a dozen airports across the US, including Houston, Atlanta, Newark, Philadelphia, and Chicago, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/ice-agents-deploy-to-major-u-s-airports-as-tsa-faces-shutdown-shortages\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PBS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PBS&quot;}\" class=\"link \">PBS<\/a>. Credit: Eliza Rose via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Security lines snaked in and out of a Houston airport on Tuesday, March 24, as airports across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[736,85763,6832,56,58,57,3647,84795,3311,25401,4093],"class_list":["post-219966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-airports","tag-eliza-rose","tag-george-bush-intercontinental-airport","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-partial-government-shutdown","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-security-lines","tag-transportation-security-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}