Karoline Leavitt Asked If Deportations Will Decline While ICE Does TSA Work
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked Wednesday whether deportations will decline in the U.S. while ICE agents are assisting with security and staffing problems at several shutdown-affected airports…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked Wednesday whether deportations will decline in the U.S. while ICE agents are assisting with security and staffing problems at several shutdown-affected airports.
President Donald Trump deployed between 100 and 150 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to several major airports to assist the shortage in Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents, after many quit or are unable to work due to the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Leavitt told the Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese that security lines, have dropped as a result of the move, but the administration is hoping it will improve further.
“Do you expect deportations to decrease while ICE is in the airports and what are the tradeoffs of having ICE in the airports right now?” Reese asked.
“To address this obviously short-term problem and the chaos that has been sowed by these Democrats on Capitol Hill, to address the lines and to get Americans traveling and get them to where they need to be, so the president thinks this was a creative solution, that again, has been criticized, but we have seen wait times decrease. Not as much as we’d like, but hopefully they will continue to. But at major airports, over the course of the next few days as ICE is facilitating with travelers in these airports,” Leavitt said.
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