Schumer Wrongly Predicts ICE Airport Deployments Would Lead to ‘Trouble’

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer engaged in more left-wing inflammatory rhetoric against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents earlier this week when he wrongly predicted that President Trump’s decision to send them into airports to assist the TSA would lead to “trouble.”

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“Everywhere ICE goes, trouble follows,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “We’ve seen that. And it is highly likely the airports will be no exception.” Only, ICE agents deployed to 13 airports on Monday and Tuesday without incident, freeing Transportation Security Administration agents to focus more on their regular duties to assist passengers and reduce wait times.

“So, Donald Trump, the more you keep ICE agents at our airports, the more you will be reminding people of how much chaos and fear ICE has already caused. It’s a terrible idea that could backfire on the country and on Donald Trump,” Schumer added.

Schumer and other Democrats also falsely claimed that ICE agents would be taking over airport security lines from TSA staff, when in reality ICE deployed to relieve TSA agents of mundane duties like guarding exits, freeing more of them up to focus on their primary functions.

Not long after Schumer made his inflammatory remarks, local news agencies were reporting that lines at TSA checkpoints in many of the airports where ICE agents were deployed had disappeared.

I do want to point out, this is an empty line right now,” Bryanna Gallagher of WPVI-TV said Tuesday morning during a live report from the Philadelphia airport. She added: “We are standing in the middle where travelers come to check in for TSA. Yesterday, this was all the way back to the garage. So good news today. Lines aren’t too bad.”

Her report did not credit ICE agents for helping to alleviate the bottlenecks and some of the passengers she spoke to for her report were not keen on having them in airports. But what wasn’t in question was the fact that lines were gone and that coincided directly with Trump’s deployment of ICE agents.

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