{"id":228202,"date":"2026-03-31T07:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228202\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:13:07","slug":"ice-agents-seen-performing-tsa-duties-at-houston-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228202\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Agents Seen Performing TSA Duties at Houston Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ICE agents were spotted at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston assisting TSA officers with baggage and ID checks on Sunday, March 29, during the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/south-texas-el-paso\/news\/2026\/03\/27\/ice-agents-seen-checking-traveler-ids-at-houston-airport\" 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\">Video filmed by TikTok user @gloszzoutdoors shows ICE agents working in tandem with TSA officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ICE agents were deployed to airports nationwide from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/23\/us\/ice-agents-airports.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:March 23;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;March 23&quot;}\" class=\"link \">March 23<\/a> to assist with long lines resulting from TSA staffing shortage during the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/tsa-workers-finally-paid-after-44-days-but-challenges-continue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:44 days without pay;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;44 days without pay&quot;}\" class=\"link \">44 days without pay<\/a>, TSA staff began receiving back pay on Monday, but ICE agents could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/29\/us\/politics\/ice-tsa-airports-homan-trump-shutdown.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:remain;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;remain&quot;}\" class=\"link \">remain<\/a> at airports, depending on airport needs. Credit: @gloszzoutdoors via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ICE agents were spotted at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston assisting TSA officers with baggage and ID&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6832,1857,56,58,57,15924,4024],"class_list":["post-228202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-george-bush-intercontinental-airport","tag-government-shutdown","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-ice-agents","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228202","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=228202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}