President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he is deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to assist with security at airports starting Monday, part of an effort to lessen rapidly increasing wait times during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
The move was confirmed Sunday morning by border czar Tom Homan, who told CNN’s Dana Bash that he and other officials were actively coming up with a plan for how to reassign the federal immigration agents just hours before those agents were set to show up at airports across the country.
“We’ll put together a plan today, and we’ll execute it tomorrow,” Homan said.