The president Donald Trump threatened to use Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the airports before the lack of payment to security agents due to a partial budget blockage.
The suspension of funds has caused longer queues than usual at the airport security checkswhere employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSAin English) They have been working without pay since mid-February.
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Trump wrote on his network Truth Social that if Democrats do not immediately agree to release funds to pay officials, will turn to ICE.
“I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to the airportswhere they will be in charge of security like no one has ever seen,” he told the president.
Since February 14, the resources for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are frozen by the dispute between democrats and republicans in Congress for ICE practices. DHS is responsible for airport security posts.
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Due to this partial closure, thousands of federal DHS officials are on technical unemploymentwhile many others, whose functions are considered essential, continue to work. In both cases, they do not receive salaries.
The close to 65 thousand TSA employees they have not received their full salary since March 13.
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