Overview
- President Trump’s team sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to help Transportation Security Administration screeners at airports during a Department of Homeland Security funding lapse.
- At Newark Liberty International Airport, Sen. Cory Booker called the plan an outrage and said ICE has been bursting into schools, churches, hospitals, courts and homes.
- Tom Homan answered on Fox News that Booker is misleading people and denied any planned arrests in churches, hospitals or elementary schools.
- Homan acknowledged one case in the past year where agents chased a suspect into an education center and made an arrest near the entrance.
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries warned that using untrained ICE agents at checkpoints could endanger travelers, while right-leaning outlets defended the move and blamed Democrats for airport delays.