US EditionTrump’s ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News
President Trump credited a radio caller's idea for deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports amid TSA staffing shortages during a partial DHS shutdown.
- On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that ICE agents would be deployed at U.S. airports, claiming credit two days later for the idea's origin.
- Amid a five-week DHS partial shutdown, a caller on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Friday proposed 'I think I have a solution to the TSA problem' and 'We need to bring in ICE agents', prompting on-air discussion.
- Clay Travis relayed on Fox, the idea spread quickly on conservative social media, after a caller said 'I think I have a solution to the TSA problem' and 'We need to bring in ICE agents'.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived Monday at some airports to assist Transportation Security Administration, while Dallas-based ICE agent Johnny Jones expressed apprehension about the hastily assembled plan.
- Media traced the idea back to a Friday radio segment and Fox amplifications, with CNN identifying Linda from Arizona but noting no direct proof Trump lifted it from Fox, while officials offered conflicting statements about ICE roles at airports.
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Was a conservative radio caller behind the idea to send ICE agents into airports?
This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. On Monday, ICE agents were deployed to 14 […] The post Was a conservative radio caller behind the idea to send ICE agents into airports? appeared first on Poynter.
US President Donald Trump does not appear to have come up with the idea of deploying ICE agents at American airports himself. Presumably...
CNN report traces Trump’s airport federal agent idea to Fox News radio host
Today, videos and images of ICE agents at airports are popping up all over the internet, the result of President Donald Trump’s promise to send federal immigration agents to support security efforts. With TSA agents working without pay until Congress agrees on a funding bill, many are calling in sick or quitting altogether, causing security wait times as long as four hours at some airports. While debates are raging as to the value of Trump’s dec…
‘You May Have Changed the World’: Conservative Radio Hosts Interview Caller Who Recommended Trump Use ICE at Airports
A woman who may have given President Donald Trump the idea to use ICE agents at airports nationwide after sharing her plan last week on the Clay & Buck radio program called the show back on Monday to discuss the aftermath. “Linda from Arizona” told hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton she thought of the ICE suggestion after talking to her granddaughter, who had told her the security lines were especially long while traveling for spring break. She t…
Trump's ICE in airports idea came from Fox News viewer 'Linda from Arizona': report
President Donald Trump claimed credit for the idea of sending immigration agents into airports to take over security duties, but he seems to have been inspired by a segment on Fox News.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived Monday at some airports around the U.S. to assist Transportation Security Administration officials during a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump quickly credited himself for devising the …
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