The Department of Homeland Security is now weeks into its funding lapse.
Last Friday, with TSA lines at airports growing,
a woman named Linda called into a conservative radio show to offer a thought.
Clay, I think I have a solution to the TSA problem.
What we need to do is we need to supplement where we 're missing out on TSA agents
who ca n't afford to work for us anymore.
We need to bring in ICE agents.
The host, Clay Travis, loved the thought.
Linda, that's I'm going to say it's kind of a brilliant idea.
He loved it enough that he brought it up on Fox News later that day.
I had a caller on the show, the Clay and Buck show today, Charlie, had an interesting idea.
What if President Trump announced that ICE agents were now
going to be supplementing TSA agents inside of all of the airports?
By the next morning, Trump floated the idea on Truth Social,
threatening that if Democrats do n't give in and fund DHS, he 'd send ICE agents into airports.
Which he soon did. — As the White House deploys ICE agents to airports around the country today.
— Happening now, ICE agents have arrived at Hartsville-Jackson International Airport.
— And they love it because they 're able to now arrest illegals as they come into the country.
That's very fertile territory.
But that's not why they're there.