ICE May Remain at Airports Even After T.S.A. Pay Resumes, Border Czar Says

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could remain at U.S.
airports, where President Trump had sent them to respond to a shortage
of security employees during a shutdown of the Department of Homeland
Security, even after those employees are paid again, Mr. Trump’s chief
border official said on Sunday. 

“It depends how many T.S.A. agents come back to work,” the White House
border czar, Tom Homan, said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to
the Transportation Security Administration. “How many T.S.A. agents have
actually quit and have no plan coming back to work? I’m working very
closely with the T.S.A. administrator and the ICE director to decide
what airport needs what.” 

Mr. Homan added later, in an appearance on CBS, that ICE agents would
stay “until the airports feel like they’re 100 percent” and “normal
operations” resume. 

Mr. Trump signed an executive order Friday to pay T.S.A. employees as
Congress remains at an impasse over funding the Department of Homeland
Security. 

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