The detention of a woman in the baggage area of the international airport in San Francisco, California, by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), intensified the controversy on the deployment of immigration agents in air terminalsa measure adopted by the Donald Trump government due to personnel shortages resulting from the budget blockage in Congress.
The deployment began yesterday in at least 14 airports, including New York, Chicago and Atlanta, where a lack of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers caused long lines and delays.
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The presence of elements of the immigration control body in logistical and supervision tasks, outside its traditional scope, led to arrests that ignited the political debate about the scope of immigration powers in areas of civil transit.
The intervention occurs in a context of partial paralysis of the federal government that has left TSA workers without pay, which increased the absences and forced
redistribute functions to keep the terminals operational.
Trumpism’s immigration advisor, Tom Homan, indicated that the objective is to allow
for the TSA to concentrate its resources on security checks, while ICE
supports the management of passenger flows.
Political sectors questioned the measure due to the risk of expanding the presence of an agency linked to anti-immigration operations in spaces where they converge.
national and international travelers.
Finally, Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries warned of possible operational risks,
while Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski considered that these tasks were not
correspond to the institutional mandate of the controversial immigration agency.
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