The Trump administration will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into US airports on Monday in a move that risks escalating political divisions over the president’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
Tom Homan, the White House border tsar, said ICE officers would be dispatched to airports to ease long wait times caused by a partial government shutdown, which has led to staff responsible for security checks at airports working without pay.
In a social media post on Saturday, US President Donald Trump threatened the action unless Democrats backed down in their refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security as a protest against its tough immigration enforcement tactics.
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