{"id":537230,"date":"2026-03-21T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537230\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:01:18","slug":"trump-threatens-to-put-ice-agents-in-us-airports-amid-tsa-funding-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537230\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to put ICE agents in US airports amid TSA funding clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump \u2060on Saturday threatened to \u2060deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u2060agents to US airports if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree to fund airport safety.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one \u200chas ever seen before,\u201d Trump wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Transportation Security Administration personnel are set to miss a second full pay cheque on March 27 amid a partial government shutdown now in its 36th day as lawmakers clash over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency for TSA and ICE.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">TSA \u2060officers have called in sick in recent weeks as pay cheques have dried up. The \u200cshortage of security agents has led to travel disruptions at major airports.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">ICE agents are not specifically trained for airport security, which is \u200cTSA\u2019s domain. ICE has played a central role in the Trump administration\u2019s \u2060immigration crackdown, drawing \u2060criticism from many Democrats, civil liberties advocates and immigration advocacy groups.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774119678_131_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">Outcry after ICE killing of another US citizen<\/p>\n<p>Outcry after ICE killing of another US citizen<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The agency, along with Customs and Border Protection, \u200chas deployed agents over the past few months to multiple areas as part of the crackdown, most recently to \u200cMinnesota in \u200can operation that resulted in agents fatally shooting American citizens Renee Good and Alex \u200cPretti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump \u2060on Saturday threatened to \u2060deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u2060agents to US airports if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3768,155394,4515,36525,12,59806,2483,46162,118966,6429,3,9600,240794,153490,21,19,22,20,25,97136,24],"class_list":["post-537230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-american-civil-liberties-union","tag-customs-and-border-protection","tag-democrats","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem","tag-ice","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-markwayne-mullin","tag-minnesota","tag-news","tag-oklahoma","tag-renee-good-and-alex-pretti","tag-tsa","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-senate","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}