President Donald Trump escalated his standoff with congressional Democrats on Saturday, threatening to redeploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports across the United States if the partial government shutdown is not brought to an immediate end. The warning came as travel disruption intensified nationwide, with thousands of TSA officers continuing to work without pay and security queues stretching to two hours or more at major hubs.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump issued a blunt ultimatum. 'If the Radical Left Democrats don't immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before,' he wrote. The president added that agents would carry out the 'immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants', with what he described as a 'heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, who have totally destroyed... the once Great State of Minnesota' — a pointed reference to Representative Ilhan Omar and state officials he named directly.
