TSA to Send Security Staff to US-Mexico Border

A TSA agent checks a passengers documents on a security screening line at LaGuardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York City on Jan. 25, 2019. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

WASHINGTON–The Trump administration plans to redirect Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff to the southern border to assist with immigration duties and migrant flows, the TSA said on May 15.

A TSA spokesman said the agency was looking for volunteers to support efforts at the U.S. border with Mexico, where the government is grappling with record numbers of illegal aliens.