Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports to Assist TSA on Monday

The president said border czar Tom Homan will lead the effort.

Passengers wait in long Transportation Security Administration lines as a partial government shutdown continues, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on March 20, 2026. Megan Varner/Reuters

President Donald Trump said on March 22 that he will deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to airports on March 23 to help Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents manage security checkpoints.

“On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on March 22. “The great [White House border czar] Tom Homan is in charge!!!”