00:00President Trump ordered federal immigration agents to U.S. airports to help relieve security line congestion with ICE officers potentially
00:08guarding exit lanes or checking passenger IDs as a budget impasse has left hundreds of thousands of TSA and other
00:16homeland security workers without pay.
00:19At Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, some travelers waited nearly six hours in security lines staffed by as few as two
00:27TSA agents.
00:29With many missing flights entirely, while scenes at JFK in New York were described as even more chaotic, critics including
00:37the union representing over 50,000 TSA employees condemned the plan, arguing ICE agents lacked the training and certification required
00:46for aviation security, while Democrats called the deployment provocative and unnecessary.
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