ICE took another step tonight toward becoming Donald Trump’s personal army.
He tried this in 2020. Federal agents in unmarked vans grabbed protesters off the streets of Portland because the military wouldn’t do it for him. So in this administration, he went around that roadblock. ICE agents don’t have the same institutional limits as the military. They’ve been recruited with massive bonuses, they answer only to his loyalists, and not once in 14 months have they refused a single directive.
More than 400 TSA officers have quit during a five-week DHS shutdown. ICE is now deploying to airports for crowd control, staffing the security checkpoints the president emptied when he broke the agency that was supposed to be there.
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