President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports nationwide on Saturday by issuing Democratic lawmakers a strict deadline for action, warning that if his demands were not met by Monday, he would make good on his threat.
“If the Democrats do not allow for Just and Proper Security at our Airports, and elsewhere throughout our Country, ICE will do the job far better than ever done before! The Fascist Democrats will never protect America, but the Republicans will,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“Just like the Radical Left allowed millions of Criminals to pour into our Country through their ridiculous and dangerous Open Border Policy, the Republicans closed it all down, and we now have the Strongest Border in American History. Likewise, I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, ‘GET READY.’ NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!”
Trump’s threat comes amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, sparked by Democratic lawmakers’ refusal to fund ICE without the agency undergoing reforms in the wake of its violent immigration enforcement operations. Trump first issued the threat to deploy ICE agents just an hour prior to having imposed the Monday deadline in a follow-up post.
“The Radical Left Democrats have hurt so many people with their vicious and uncaring ways,” Trump wrote. “What they have done to the Department of Homeland Security, our fantastic [Transportation Security Administration] Officers, and, most importantly, the great people of our Country, is an absolute disgrace.”