{"id":8985,"date":"2026-03-24T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/airport-chaos-tsa-agents-skip-work-security-lines-expand-trump-sends-in-ice-to-assist\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:00:24","slug":"airport-chaos-tsa-agents-skip-work-security-lines-expand-trump-sends-in-ice-to-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/airport-chaos-tsa-agents-skip-work-security-lines-expand-trump-sends-in-ice-to-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport chaos: TSA agents skip work, security lines expand, Trump sends in ICE to assist"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iceatlantatwo_0-e1774317228858-1024x614.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Federal immigration officers were at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, March 23, 2026, to help with airport security as the partial shutdown continues. The airport was telling travelers to prepare for at least four-hour wait times to get through security Monday. (Photo by Ross Williams\/Georgia Recorder)\" \/><figcaption>\n<p>Federal immigration officers were at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, March 23, 2026, to help with airport security as the partial shutdown continues. The airport was telling travelers to prepare for at least four-hour wait times to get through security Monday (Ross Williams\/Georgia Recorder).<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Airport security workers missed work Monday at the highest rate since a partial government shutdown began in mid-February, the Department of Homeland Security said, and the Trump administration sent immigration officials to some airports in an attempt to keep lines moving.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Travelers reported hourslong security lines at major airports in Atlanta and Houston, while waits of 30 minutes or more were reported at several other hubs Monday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nearly 3,500 Transportation Security Administration agents, roughly 11.8% of the scheduled nationwide workforce, called out from work Monday. TSA officers have been working without pay since the department that oversees TSA began a funding lapse Feb. 14 due to a dispute in Congress over immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Call out rates were over 20% at a handful of major airports, according to DHS. They were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"e320b0063d9c38a737ca107f5758311fb\">42.3% in New Orleans<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"e4b0dcef0ff143252186dce284f786da2\">41.5% in Atlanta<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"ea8735d1fff2ba8b728d0a00c81891cbd\">39.1% in Houston<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"e8afa688807a9deac0265e89b69f273bc\">38.1% in Baltimore<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"e8af5cdc3312a3553ff5131199763ce00\">37.4% at New York\u2019s John F. Kennedy International Airport<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"e7870715be94c967c0c4c9a6cb3e08585\">24.7% in Pittsburgh<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"edc34553905a53a063df571af40d85433\">24.2% in Philadelphia<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"e46f23b4d3fc55aefd10cee031319d17f\">21.7% at New York\u2019s Laguardia Airport<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" data-list-item-id=\"e0ce002f861e6b47d0bd3e561e5a9e264\">20.3% in Phoenix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>ICE to airports<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">More than 400 TSA workers have quit since the \u201cpointless, reckless shutdown\u201d began, DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis said in an emailed statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bis blamed the shutdown and related problems with air security staffing on Democrats in Congress, and confirmed DHS would send officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, another DHS agency, to assist TSA at airports.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">TSA officers \u201care not able to afford gas, childcare, food, or rent,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhile the Democrats continue to put the safety, dependability, and ease of our air travel at risk, President Trump is taking action to deploy hundreds of ICE officers, that are currently funded by Congress, to airports being adversely impacted. This will help bolster TSA efforts to keep our skies safe and minimize air travel disruptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">President Donald Trump praised ICE in comments to reporters Monday morning and suggested he could also call upon National Guard troops to help at airports.<\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-drupal-media  view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"drupal-media-wrapper media--view-mode-large\">\n<div class=\"blazy blazy--field blazy--view blazy--field-media-image blazy--field-media-image--large blazy--view--article-feeds-v2-feed-categorized-articles-v2 blazy--view--article-feeds-v2 blazy--view--article-feeds-v2--categorized-articles-v2 field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\" data-blazy>\n<div data-b-token=\"b-03ae169371d\" class=\"media media--blazy media--image media--responsive is-b-loading\">  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__element b-lazy b-responsive img-fluid\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iceatlantafour_1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Federal immigration officers at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, March 23, 2026. (Photo by Ross Williams\/Georgia Recorder)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Federal immigration officers at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, March 23, 2026. (Photo by Ross Williams\/Georgia Recorder)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThey stepped in so, so strongly,\u201d he said of ICE officers. \u201cThey\u2019ll do great. And if that\u2019s not enough, I\u2019ll bring in the National Guard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tom Homan, the White House border czar who coordinates much of Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement agenda, said in a Sunday interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d that ICE officers would primarily handle duties that did not require extensive training, such as making sure no one entered secure areas through exits.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re simply there to help TSA do their job in areas that don\u2019t need their specialized expertise,\u201d he said, rather than screening through the X-ray machines, he told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash. \u201cBut there are roles we can play to release TSA officers from the non-significant role, such as guarding an exit, so they can get back to the scanning machines and move people quicker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">DHS declined to provide a list of airports to which ICE would deploy, citing \u201coperational security\u201d concerns.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">ICE officers were spotted at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the nation\u2019s busiest, where waits of four hours in security lines were reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<h4>Shutdown persists<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Federal law requires TSA officers to work, even during a shutdown, though they will not be paid until funding is restored.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite being at the center of the shutdown debate, ICE has not been affected by the DHS funding lapse because Republicans provided the agency massive funding in the tax cuts and spending bill they passed along party lines last year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Democrats have refused to fund a fiscal 2026 appropriations bill for the department without major changes to the administration\u2019s immigration enforcement, which reached a tipping point following the deaths of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBecause of the Democrat shutdown, President Trump is using every tool available to help American travelers who are facing hours long lines at airports across the country\u2014especially during this spring break and holiday season that is very important for many American families,\u201d Bis said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a rare weekend session, the U.S. Senate again failed to advance a funding measure for DHS on Saturday.<\/p>\n<h4>Deadly LaGuardia crash<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada plane died, and more than 40 people were injured, after the jet collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia airport late Sunday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The incident was unrelated to problems with TSA, which is not responsible for safety on runways or elsewhere outside of airport terminals, but it further delayed and complicated travel in the New York City area.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Ashley Murray contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal immigration officers were at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, March 23, 2026, to help with airport security as the partial shutdown continues. 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