{"id":539427,"date":"2026-03-22T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539427\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:38:07","slug":"trump-administration-touts-plan-for-ice-at-airports-amid-criticism-from-union-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539427\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration touts plan for ICE at airports amid criticism from union, Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald \u2060Trump\u2019s border tsar said on Sunday that having immigration agents bolster short-staffed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) teams will speed up airport queues but the union for TSA workers said that does not solve what they see as the underlying problem of pay.<\/p>\n<p>In appearances on Sunday news shows, US border tsar Tom Homan and Transport Secretary Sean Duffy argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICE<\/a>) staff can help with airport security screening, starting on Monday, \u200ceven though they have not been specifically trained for it.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhen we deploy tomorrow, we\u2019ll have a well thought-out plan to execute,\u201d Homan said on CNN\u2019s State of the Union programme.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of TSA agents have been working without pay for weeks because of an impasse between Democrats and Republicans in Congress over funding the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/department-homeland-security-us?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS), the parent agency of ICE and TSA.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Democrats have criticised the department\u2019s immigration operations that have killed US citizens and sparked public outrage, demanding a \u2060change in rules.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some 10 per cent of TSA employees have been absent from work in recent days, with the rate even higher at major airports in Atlanta, New York \u200cCity and Houston, leading to lengthy queues for passengers trying to get to their gates. Hundreds of TSA agents have simply resigned, according to their labour union and TSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald \u2060Trump\u2019s border tsar said on Sunday that having immigration agents bolster short-staffed Transportation Security Administration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,50156,5786,15284,1340,4515,12,12481,7095,2483,16950,1999,3,2186,153490,21,19,22,20,25,241580,145415,24],"class_list":["post-539427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-american-federation-of-government-employees","tag-atlanta","tag-cnn","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-houston","tag-ice","tag-minneapolis","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-republicans","tag-tsa","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-department-of-homeland-security","tag-us-house-of-representatives","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539427","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=539427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}