Congress is still at an impasse over the funding of DHS, as Democrats and Republicans debate over immigration enforcement reforms. But President Donald Trump, who had previously ordered the deployment of ICE agents to mitigate the effects on American travel and put pressure on Democrats to cut a deal, announced late last week that he would fund TSA.
But when asked on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday about whether ICE will stay in airports after TSA workers get their pay and backpay, Homan said, “We’ll see.”
“It depends how many TSA agents come back to work, how many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plan on coming back to work,” Homan added. “I’m working very closely with the TSA administrator and the ICE director to decide what airport needs what.”
Appearing on CBS News’ Face the Nation, Homan said that ICE’s presence in airports will continue “until the airports feel like they’re 100%, in a posture where they can do normal operations,” reiterating that having less TSA agents returning to work “means we’ll keep more ICE agents there.”
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