Trump deploying ICE to airports on Monday to ease crowded TSA lines — as NYC travelers face security line hell

ICE officers will be deployed to airports to help clear the horrendous security lines for the TSA, which ran out of funding more than a month ago because of a Democrat shutdown, President Trump announced Sunday.

The move is meant to speed up security lines, which have stretched up to three hours at some airports as TSA agents walk off the job or call out sick because they haven’t been paid in weeks.

“On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard line criminals who have entered our Country illegally, are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The president predicted his decision to send the federal immigration agents to airports nationwide would be met with criticism from the left.

“But watch, no matter how great a job ICE does, the Lunatics leading the incompetent Dems will be highly critical of their work,” Trump said, asserting, “THEY WILL DO A FANTASTIC JOB.”

Border czar Tom Homan will be “in charge” of the operation, the president added.

Homan said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that he doesn’t envision ICE agents doing the jobs of TSA screeners, but rather handling other aspects of airport security.

“I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an x-ray machine – because you’re not trained in that – [but] there are certain parts of security that TSA is doing that we can move them off those jobs and put them in the specialized jobs to help move those lines,” he explained.

“We’ll put together a plan today, and we’ll execute tomorrow,” Homan said.

The border czar indicated discussions are ongoing about how many ICE agents will be deployed to airports.

“We’re going to do what we can to help TSA move people through the line,” he added.

Even before dawn, the TSA precheck line at JFK appeared to be at a standstill and stretched longer than the regular security checkpoint line.