President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports unless congressional Democrats agree to a GOP-backed funding deal, escalating a standoff that has already slowed security lines at airports nationwide. The changes Democrats are seeking include a requirement that ICE agents get a warrant from a judge before forcefully entering homes and cease wearing masks. “If you want TSA workers to get paid, then vote yes,” Schumer said on the Senate floor, arguing that Republicans have tied TSA funding to broader Homeland Security spending without new limits on immigration enforcement. “Surely, the next thing people want after waiting hours in long TSA lines is to get wrongfully detained by ICE,” she said. Trump said that he would deploy the ICE agents if Democrats did not “immediately sign an agreement.”That type of operation, Sandweg said, would almost certainly target a population of immigrants without criminal history.
