Re: ICE arrest of illegal migrant fugitive at San Francisco airport sparks fear-mongering - here's what really happened

On 3/23/2026 10:10 PM, J D wrote:
> Viral video of a woman being nabbed by Immigration and Customs
> Enforcement officers at San Francisco International Airport sparked mass
> online fear-mongering about Trump’s deployment of immigration agents to
> help ease the TSA security crisis.
> 
> Video captured the moment ICE agents began handcuffing a crying woman on
> Sunday at around 10 p.m. inside the airport’s Terminal 3.
> 
> The officers were met with backlash from multiple passengers who filmed
> the scene and yelled at them, as the woman continued to cry with a young
> girl standing beside her, also sobbing.
> 
> “This is un-American,” one passenger is heard yelling.
> 
> “What is your badge number? What is your name?” one of the people
> filming asks as an agent holds the crying woman by the head.
> 
> However, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that the
> woman was part of a family of illegal Guatemalan migrants who have had
> removal orders since 2019.
> 
> Agents arrested the family members as part of a targeted operation, but
> as they were being escorted away, the woman broke free and ran,
> according to DHS.
> 
> DHS accused the woman of resisting arrest as agents tried to cuff her
> again.
> 
> The airport also confirmed that the arrest was unrelated to Trump’s
> order to deploy ICE agents at busy air hubs around the country to try
> and ease the wait times at TSA lines.
> 
> “We understand federal officers were transporting two individuals on an
> outbound flight when this incident occurred. We believe this is an
> isolated incident and have no reason to suspect broader enforcement
> action at SFO,” spokesman Doug Yakel said. told The Post.
> 
> After the arrest, the agents appeared to have trouble moving the woman
> as the crowd of passengers yelled and booed at them, with the hecklers
> eventually calling the police.
> 
> The ICE agents were able to leave with the woman, with San Francisco
> police present during the detention.
> 
> The sanctuary city police neither assisted nor intervened in the arrest.
> 
> The woman and the child who were in the video have yet to be publicly
> identified.
> 
> The San Francisco airport was not among the list of locations where ICE
> would be deployed, and the transportation hub does not have TSA working
> at its security checkpoints.
> 
> It instead uses private contractors as its screeners, which has allowed
> it to bypass the bulk of the latest travel chaos caused by the partial
> government shutdown.
> 
> “The airport’s role is to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the
> facility for all passengers and staff. We were not involved in or
> notified in advance of this incident. Airport operations continued
> without disruption, and there was no impact to flights or passenger
> processing,” Yakel said.
> 
> ICE did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
> 
> https://nypost.com/2026/03/23/us-news/ice-arrest-of-illegal-migrant-fugit
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Thanks for posting.  TMZ put an entirely different spin on it, 
unsuprizingly.  Cory Booker even lied about ICE:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/homan-fires-back-booker-after-senator-voices-outrage-over-ice-airport-deployments

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